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phyllome
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phyl·lome  (flm)
n.
A leaf or a plant part that evolved from a leaf.
phyl·lomic (f-lmk, -lmk) adj.
phyllome [ˈfɪləʊm]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a leaf or a leaflike organ
phyllomic  [fɪˈlɒmɪk -ˈləʊ-] adj
phyllome  (flm)
A leaf or a plant part that evolved from a leaf.
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We concluded that, in the helobial monocotyledons as a whole, inflorescence bracts, sepals, and tepals are homologous structures derived from the phyllomic appendages of the original multiaxial reproductive structure and, therefore, that the divergence between the petaloid and tepaloid groups involved divergence of the relationships between phyllome and subtended structure, at the same time as the axes of the original multiaxial structure became differentiated into "flower" and "inflorescence.
Morphological Traffic between the Inflorescence and the Vegetative ... by CHARLTON, W. ALAN; POSLUSZNY, USHER / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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