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Lacerate |
Irregularly cut or divided. |
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Lacinate |
Cut into lobes separated by deep, narrow, irregular incisions’. |
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Lanceolate |
Lance-shaped, wide at the base and tapering towards the apex lemma bract-like sheath that subtends a grass flower. |
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Layering |
A technique of vegetative propagation by which the part of plant, without separating it from the plant, is brought in contact with rooting media |
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Leaching |
The removal of soluble substances from bamboo, soil or timber by percolation |
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Leptomorph rhizome |
One of two general types of rhizomes; characterized by a slender stem, long internode and indeterminate growth. |
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Lignification |
Formation of a polymer wall that gives strength to the culm |
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Lignin |
A complex amorphous polymer that contributes to the rigidity of cell walls |
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Ligule |
Membranous outgrowth on upper surface of culm sheath or leaf, at the junction of the sheath and blade; may be represented by a ridge or by a line of hairs; elongated , flat, strap-shaped. |
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Linear |
Long and narrow, with the sides nearly parallel. |
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Loam |
A soil composed of sand, silt and clay in such proportios that properties of the soil are not dominated by any one of them |
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Lobe |
Rounded protection form; example: the blade of a culm sheath or foliage leaf. |
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Lodicule |
One of two or three minute hyaline scales of the base of stamens of most grasses; perianth segment (tepal) with a scale-like structure |
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