AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Parallel venation is most common in monocots, such as bananas, maize, rice, and so on. Parallel venation occurs when the veins are arranged parallel to each other across the entire leaf lamina.

Detailed explanation-2: -When the veins run parallel to each other it is parallel venation. Banana, coconut, wheat, maize, and most monocotyledons have parallel venation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The veins of the following monocot plants run parallel from base to the tip of the leaves-Aloe Vera, Coconut, Bajra, Mango, Rice, Banana, maize, Grass, Wheat, Lily etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -So the correct answer is ‘parallel unicostate’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Banana leaves, botanically classified as Musa acuminate, grow on a perennial herbal shrub that resembles a tree but is classified as a plant.