ligule in English

noun
1
a narrow strap-shaped part of a plant, especially, in most grasses and sedges, a membranous scale on the inner side of the leaf sheath at its junction with the blade.
Indeed, it has been noted that tyloses appeared to hinder, but not entirely block, the movement of radiolabelled amino acids in the xylem sap at the ligule of senescent leaves of Lolium temulentum.

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1. Ligule pits are present on the adaxial surface of vegetative leaves.

2. Beaked panicgrass has a very short membranous ligule that is irregular shaped

3. The first photographs show a collar with the blade (lamina), Auricles, ligule, and leaf sheath

4. Both smooth Crabgrass and large Crabgrass are characterized by a tiny, membrane-like appendage (ligule) at the base of the leaf on the upper surface

5. Electron microscopy: Samples of the leaf, Auricles, ligule and inflorescences were fixed in a 2.5% glutaraldehyde and 2% parafonnaldehyde solution in a 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 (Karnovsky 1965) and were rinsed with the buffer solution.

6. Blade (lamina): part of the leaf above the collar collar: a thin band of meristematic tissue at the junction of the leaf blade (lamina) and the sheath Auricles: claw appendages at the base of the blade of some grasses (some grasses do not have Auricles) ligule: outgrowth at the inner junction of the

7. Leaf: ligule 1.5--3 mm, truncate to obtuse, decurrent to sheath, toothed; blade 1--5 mm, 1--2 mm wide, flat or folded.Inflorescence: 4--14 cm, 0.5--1.5 cm wide, narrow; branches Appressed, loosely flowered.Spikelet: in lower branch axils cleistogamous, enclosed by tightly rolled sheath; glumes 1--2 mm, obtuse to acute; lemma 4.5--6 mm, hairs at base short