Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
(Not applicable when petiole absent.)
The petiole is the stalk of the
entire leaf, but for the operation of this key this feature is applied also to
the leaflet stalk of compound leaves. In the case of a sheathing leaf base
or petiole, the term petiole is used to describe the free part of the
petiole.
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