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Which base term is NOT also a leaf apex term

A sick plant sometimes sends up new shoots from below ground level. These shoots are called watersprouts.

Natural classifications preceded artificial classifications.

The ICN is the definitive rule book for the use of common names.

A fern with false indusia has its sporangia at the edges of pinnae or pinnules.

Louis the 14th of France was well known for growing an enormous quantity of this type of plant at his gardens at the Versailles palace:

The most intense solar energy is experienced:

The person who names a taxon is called the author or authority, and there are separate authors for a genus, species and any infraspecific category. But the authority most often cited is the species authority.

Orchids are dicotyledonous plants.

Certain mutations occur only in a certain portion of the growing point, so only some or part of the leaves show the mutation.  This is called: