Leaf Margins
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Crenate
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Entire
A continuous margin without lobes, teeth or spines.
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Crisped
A wavy, crinkled margin.
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Sinuate
A wavy margin that border on being lobes.
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Undulate
A wavy margin that is not as deeply notched as a sinuate margin.
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Lobed
A margin with distinct lobes that are less than half way to the midrib.
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Pinnatifid
A margin with lobes that extend more than half way to the midrib.
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Pinnatisect
A margin the extends all the way to the midrib.
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Palmatifid and Palmatifid
Palmatifid is a palmately lobed leaf, while a palmatisect leaf is palmately
divided to the midrib or petiole.
Palmatifid
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Crenate
A scalloped margin with small rounded teeth.
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Serrate
Serrate is a common margin type. The small, sharp teeth point upward. The
teeth may be the same size (serrate) or vary in size (doubly serrate or erose).
Serrate
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Serrulate
The margin is composed of tiny serrate teeth.
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Dentate
The teeth along the margin point outward rather than forward as seen in a
serrate margin.
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Ciliate
The leaf margin contains small hairs.
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Spinose
Spinose is having spines on the leaf margin.
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Runcinate
The lobes are deeply cut and point downward.
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Incised
The margin has deep irregularly-shaped lobes.
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Laciniate
The margin is cut into narrow, irregular lobes.
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Dissected
A deeply divided leaf with irregular lobe margins.
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