Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Leaf Bases

  • Attenuate tapering down to the base with concave margins forming an angle of <45°
  • Auriculate with ear shaped lobes at the base
  • Cordate heart shaped at the base
  • Cuneate wedge-shaped at an angle of 45-90° with straight margins
  • Hastate basal lobes shaped like the hilt of a sword, pointing outwards
  • Oblique assymmetrical
  • Sagittate basal lobes shaped like an arrowhead, pointing back and down
  • Truncate squared off at close to 180°




Attenuate leaf base



















Auriculate base of Manzanita























Cordate base of Cheeseweed

















Mystery plant has Cuneate leaf base




















Hastate leaf base of a Manzanita























Mystery plant on campus has oblique base





















Sagittate leaf base



















Truncate n/a






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