Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Title: Imparipinnate leaf. Photo by S. A. Mori.

Description: Adaxial (top) and abaxial surfaces (bottom) of the imparipinnate leaves of Robinia pseudoacacia based on an unvouchered sapling growning at the Metro-North\s Botanical Garden train station, Bronx, New York. Imparipinnate and odd pinnate have the same definitions. Note that most of the leaflets are clearly opposite while some of them are subopposite and that the leaflets are discolor with the adaxial surfaces darker green than the abaxial ones .

Term:

Leaflets alternate

Definition:

Leaflets not placed along the rachis of a pinnately compound leaf directly opposite one another.

Related Terms:

Leaflet
Primary leaflet
Secondary leaflet