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Definition of Phyllodia
1. phyllodium [n] - See also: phyllodium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllodia
Literary usage of Phyllodia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1864)
"phyllodia broadly obovate or orbicular 100. A. obliqua. ... Branches with 3,
rarely 2 acute angles. phyllodia very thick ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"phyllodia, or Petioles serving for Blade. Sometimes the petiole develops ...
Indeed, all Sarracenia-leaves are phyllodia with the back in most of them ..."
3. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"phyllodia (Fig. 302, 303). Occasionally the whole petiole dilates into a kind of
... These phyllodia constitute the whole foliage of the numerous Australian ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In this category we may also include— phyllodia. Here there is an alternation of
function between the parts of one leaf- primordium. ..."
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