Leaf axilla

Leaf axil

Leaf axilla is a term used in botany .

The term referred to in seed plants the angle or the range at which suction surface (or petiole top; engl. Stem ) and shoot axis (engl. Branch ) merge into one another. From the buds ( called axillary buds ) that arise here , vegetative side shoots (axillary shoots) or flowers or inflorescences (" axillary shoots ") can emerge. A leaf with a side shoot in the axilla is also known as a bract ; in the case of flowers, it is instead called a bract or bract .

literature

• Eduard Strasburger (founder): Textbook of botany for universities . 32nd edition, revised by Dietrich von Denffer , Hubert Ziegler , Friedrich Ehrendorfer and Andreas Bresinsky . G. Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1983, ISBN 3-437-20295-2 .
• Jost Fitschen: Woody flora. A book to identify the trees and shrubs that grow wild and are planted in Central Europe. 8th, completely revised and redesigned edition with fruit key. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg et al. 1987, ISBN 3-494-01151-6 .

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