Htp 2019-2020 Leaf Shapes - Identify By Picture And Description

Front 1

Needle-shaped

Back 1

Acicular

Front 2

Tapering to a long point

Back 2

Acuminate

Front 3

With a spine-like tip

Back 3

Aristate

Front 4

Heart-shaped at base

Back 4

Cordate

Front 5

Wedge-shaped, acute base

Back 5

Cuneate

Front 6

Triangular

Back 6

Deltoid

Front 7

With finger-like lobes

Back 7

Digitate

Front 8

Oval-shaped, small narrow point

Back 8

Elliptic

Front 9

Hooked or sickle-shaped

Back 9

Falcate

Front 10

Fan-shaped

Back 10

Flabellate

Front 11

Triangular with basal lobes

Back 11

Hastate

Front 12

Pointed at both ends

Back 12

Lanceolate

Front 13

Parallel margins, elongate

Back 13

Linear

Front 14

Deeply-indented margins

Back 14

Lobed

Front 15

Asymmetrical leaf base, with one side lower than the other

Back 15

Oblique

Front 16

Heart-shaped, stem at point

Back 16

Obcordate

Front 17

Egg-shaped, narrow at base

Back 17

Obovate

Front 18

Bluntly-tipped

Back 18

Obtuse

Front 19

Circular

Back 19

Orbicular

Front 20

Egg-shaped, wide at base

Back 20

Ovate

Front 21

Resembles a hand

Back 21

Palmate

Front 22

Palmate, divided lateral lobes

Back 22

Pedate

Front 23

Stem attached centrally

Back 23

Peltate

Front 24

Leaflets in rows, on at tip

Back 24

Odd/Oddly pinnate

Front 25

Leaflets in rows, two at tip

Back 25

Even/Evenly pinnate

Front 26

Deep, opposite lobing

Back 26

Pinnatisect

Front 27

Kidney-shaped

Back 27

Reniform

Front 28

Leaflets also pinnate

Back 28

Bipinnate

Front 29

Diamond-shaped

Back 29

Rhomboid

Front 30

Leaflets in tight circular rings

Back 30

Rosette

Front 31

Spoon-shaped

Back 31

Spatulate

Front 32

Pointed, barbed base

Back 32

Spear-shaped / Sagittate

Front 33

Tapering point, awl-shaped

Back 33

Subulate

Front 34

Leaflets in threes

Back 34

Trifoliate / Temate

Front 35

Leaflets also bipinnate

Back 35

Tripinnate

Front 36

Squared-off apex

Back 36

Truncate

Front 37

Having a single leaf

Back 37

Unifoliate

Front 38

Rings of three or more leaflets

Back 38

Whorled

Front 39

Leaflets arranged alternately

Back 39

Alternate

Front 40

Leaflets in adjacent pairs

Back 40

Opposite

Front 41

Stem seeming to pierce leaf

Back 41

Perfoliate