Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition

4.3.1 Lobation form


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Bipinnatifid or more highly divided, two or more orders of lobes arranged in pinnate form but being continuous with other lobes by a narrow wing of lamina either side of the midrib.
Palmatifid, several lobes being joined at the same point like the fingers to a hand.
Pinnatifid, a single series of lobes borned on either side of the midrib and continuous with other lobes by a narrow wing of lamina either side of the midrib.
Divided into two, more or less equal branches.
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