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Lacerate
Irregularly cut or divided.
Lacinate
Cut into lobes separated by deep, narrow, irregular incisions’.
Lanceolate
Lance-shaped, wide at the base and tapering towards the apex lemma bract-like sheath that subtends a grass flower.
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
Leaching
The removal of soluble substances from bamboo, soil or timber by percolation
Leptomorph rhizome
One of two general types of rhizomes; characterized by a slender stem, long internode and indeterminate growth.
Lignification
Formation of a polymer wall that gives strength to the culm
Lignin
A complex amorphous polymer that contributes to the rigidity of cell walls
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.
Linear
Long and narrow, with the sides nearly parallel.
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
Lobe
Rounded protection form; example: the blade of a culm sheath or foliage leaf.
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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