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Leaf sheathing (CHAN_TszYan)
Updated on 17/04/2015

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Description

Leaf sheathing is a structure that can be observed in several familiy of angiosperms, e.gg Commelinaceae, Araceae, Canaceae, etc.
Sheathing is the continous of leaves that wrap around the stem. Sheathing can be divided into two types: open sheath and close sheath.

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Comments

Well done. I think it is more appropriate to describe the feature you show as leaf sheathing rather than sheathing at the base. I have modified our title and description.

by Cherry_Chow (Teacher) at 2015-05-15 10:46:35