Planteome: Term Details for "scale leaf" (PO:0006003)

Accession: PO:0006003
Name: scale leaf
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: catáfila en escama (Spanish, exact), 鱗片葉 (Japanese, exact), cataphyll (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A phyllome that is reduced in size relative to a vascular leaf on the same plant and is often associated with a perennating or dormant bud or a vegetatively propagating organ such as a rhizome. Source: ISBN:0080374913
Comment: May be photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic. Some species have vascular leaves that are scale-like (such as Juniperus, Thuja, and Chamaecyparis). Annotations for scale-like leaves should go under vascular leaf (PO:0009025), not scale leaf.
Subset: reference; TraitNet
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to scale leaf.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to scale leaf.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for scale leaf.
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subject	relation	object
scale leaf	is_a	phyllome (PO:0006001)