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- Lanate
- Woolly.
- Lanceolate
- Lance-shaped, several times longer than wide and tapering at both ends. Widest about a third above the base. See drawing of leaf shapes.
- Leaf
- A flat, thin outgrowth of a stem that is usually green in color. It serves as the principal area for the manufacture of food for the plant (photosynthesis).
- Legume
- A plant of the Fabaceae Family. A simple dry fruit, usually opening along two sides, and containing one row of seeds.
- Lemma
- The lower bract enclosing the flower of grass. See drawing of parts of a grass plant.
- Lenticel
- A corky spot on bark that serves as an air pore.
- Lepidote
- Bearing small, scale-like trichomes.
- Ligule
- (a) A thin, non-green membranous outgrowth or row of hairs often found on the upper and inner side of the leaf blade where it joins the sheath. Occurs in many grasses and some sedges. See drawing of parts of a grass plant. (b) A flattened, strap-shaped part of the ray corolla in the Asteraceae Family.
- Linear
- Long and narrow, with the sides almost parallel. See drawing of leaf shapes.
- Loment
- A jointed fruit, usually constricted between the seeds, that breaks into one-seeded segments upon maturity. See drawing of fruits.