BOTANY
FORESTRY
Question
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Palmately compound
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Pinnately compound
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pinnately compound leaves are a type of compound leaves. Here lamina is divided into multiple leaflets or pinnules. Leaflets are attached to the common axis that is called the rachis.
Detailed explanation-2: -A palmately compound leaf has its leaflets radiating outwards from the end of the petiole, like fingers off the palm of a hand. Examples of plants with palmately compound leaves include poison ivy, the buckeye tree, or the familiar house plant Schefflera sp.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pinnate (even): Leaflets are attached along an extension of the petiole called a rachis; there is an even number of leaflets. Palmate: Leaflets are attached to the tip of the petiole.
Detailed explanation-4: -The clover leaf is an example of palmate leaf. In a pinnately compound leaf a number of leaflets are present on a common axis, the rachis, which represents the midrib of the leaf as in neem and gulmohar.