Sentence examples for form of leaf from inspiring English sources
An interesting form of leaf is found in Citrus, where the simple blade is separated from the petiole by a joint.
Mangroves have important ecological value due to their high productivity in the form of leaf litterfall.
Trees such as Codia africana, Milletia ferruginea, Croton macrostachyus, and various species of acacia are interspersed in the crop fields providing fresh supply of organic matter in the form of leaf litter to the soil.
The same environmental conditions are also responsible for damage to vegetation (Johnson and Parnell [1986]; Delmelle et al. [2002]; Delmelle et al. [2001]; McBirney [1956]; Stoiber et al. [1986]), in the form of leaf chlorosis and necrosis and decreased productivity.
Similarly, in marine coastal habitats, supralittoral vegetation may provide an important source of terrigenous input in the form of leaf litter to intertidal areas [7] [8] and terrestrial and intertidal invertebrates have been shown to comprise a proportion of their diets of salmon fry caught in nearshore habitats [9] [12], [14] [15].
A portion of individual plants sampled from both stand types experienced some form of leaf herbivory.
They are cell-wall-less prokaryotes that inhabit plant phloem system, associated with symptoms such as stunting of stems, proliferation of axillary shoots (witches'-broom), yellowing of leaves, formation of sterile-deformed flowers, greening of floral tissues (virescence) and forming of leaf-like flower organs (phyllody).
Records may be available in the form of palm leaf, bark, parchment, silk, leather and cloth manuscripts.
This has yielded to a palette of gold, terra cotta, teal, forest green and Dutch metal (a less expensive form of gold leaf) "to make the space shimmer," he said.
Large quantity waste from these industries in the form of trimmed leaf residues is available as feed material for preparation of vermicompost.
Since the leaf can deform if the surface form is measured using conventional contact methods, the non-contact phase-shifting fringe projection method was applied to determine the 3-D surface form of the leaf.
