ligules 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. Earlyleaf Brome is distinguished by the leafy stems, Auricled sheaths, dense line of hairs on at least some ligules, nodes all hidden within the sheaths, a 1-veined lower glume, 3 to 5-veined upper glume, glumes and lemmas both often hairy, lemmas with longer …