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Question 1

Labellum

Answer 1

the lip or lowest front placed petal of an orchid, or the 5th (minute) petal in a trigger plant

Question 2

Labiate

Answer 2

lipped

Question 3

Laciniate

Answer 3

divided or slashed into narrow pointed lobes or teeth

Question 4

Lamina

Answer 4

blade or expanded portion, usually of a leaf

Question 5

Lanceolate

Answer 5

lance-shaped, long. widening above the base and tapering to a point (as in leaf).

Question 6

Landing platform

Answer 6

as used by pollinating insects, e.g. in Isopogon and Petrophile

Question 7

Leaf-teeth

Answer 7

scale-leaves on branchlets as in Allocasuarina

Question 8

Lemma

Answer 8

in grasses. the lower of the two bracts immediately enclosing the flower

Question 9

Lepidote

Answer 9

covered with small scurfy scales

Question 10

Lignotuber

Answer 10

a woody swelling. often ± underground at the base of the stem as in Malice eucalypts and Banksia spp

Question 11

Ligulate

Answer 11

strap-shaped. as in corolla of ray florets of Asteraceae

Question 12

Ligule

see ray florets

Answer 12

1. a membranous or ciliate projection from the junction of the leaf-sheath and the blade in a grass;
2. the apical part of a petal in the flowers of Sterculiaceae; 3. the strap·shaped petal-like corolla of the outer florets (sometimes all the florets) in heads of Asteraceae

Question 13

Limb

Answer 13

the flattened expanded part of a calyx or corolla. the base of which is tubular.

Question 14

Linear

Answer 14

long and narrow with edges parallel

Question 15

Line

Answer 15

01w line equal, 1 ‘I2 in. or 2.1 mm

Question 16

Lip

Answer 16

the labellum of an orchid. or 1 of till’ 2 opposite parts of a labiate corolla

Question 17

Lobe

Answer 17

a division of a leaf, petal. or sepal up to about the middle.

Question 18

Locule

Answer 18

cell or compartment of an ovary or fruit

Question 19

Lodicules

Answer 19

delicate scales associated with the ovary of grasses.

Question 20

Lyrate

Answer 20

pinnatifid. but with a large terminal lobe and smaller lower lobes