stipule

Stipules elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, margin serrate, teeth with a disciform apical gland.

Stipules lanceolate, distinct or connate at least at base.

Trees up to 15 m tall, glabrous except for rufous pubescent branchlets, stipules, abaxial leaf surface, pedicels, and sepals.

Stipules green, ovate to broadly ovate, margin incised serrate, teeth with a capitate apical gland.

The auriculate stipules and ovate epicalyx lobe appendages of this species are instantly diagnostic.

Creeping or obliquely ascending herbs; sepals with adaxial gland-pits, male sepal margins distally irregularly crenate; stipules awned.

Branches slender, pith narrow and solid; inflorescences both terminal and axillary; stipules obsolete or inconspicuous.

Stipules lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, membranous, densely covered with short brown pubescence, glabrescent , basal ones bract like and persistent.

Leaves alternate; stipules absent; leaf blade leathery. Flowers small, in axillary clusters, sometimes racemose.

Stipules ovate to ovate-elliptic, margin serrate, teeth with a conical apical gland.

Stipules caducous, pale brown, linear-lanceolate, 6-10 mm, thinly membranous, with a few stiff hairs.

Leaves opposite, alternate on upper parts of stem, simple, without stipules.

Stigma ovoid-capitate, on short style; stipules persistent, reflexed at flowering; slender stoloniferous herb.

stipules persistent, free, at junction of stem and petiole, broad, occasionally narrow, undivided, rarely divided.

stems, stipules, petioles, and leaves densely covered with cystoliths.

interpetiolar stipules well developed to reduced to a transverse ridge.

Stipules narrowly lanceolate; stem prickles with prominent basal tubercle, straight.

Auricles of stipules of radical leaves borne on lateral side of petiole; flowering stem developing as distal part of main stem.

stipules absent. Inflorescences simple or complex cymes, sometimes reduced to sessile clusters, often in a thyrse or 1-flowered.

stipules membranous; leaflets lanceolate, ovate, or broadly ovate to elliptic, margin dentate.

Rhizome nearly erect, slightly robust, shortly and conspicuously noded, with few brown remains of stipules.

Auricles of stipules of radical leaves borne on adaxial side of petiole; flowering stems arising from axils of radical leaves.

stipules small, caducous or persistent, sometimes transformed into spines.

Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, simple or variously divided.

Leaf blade narrowly ovate; stipules triangular, apex acuminate or cuspidate; petiole swollen at base.

Herbs, perennial. Stipules subulate, asymmetric, veins adaxially slightly elevated.

Leaflets markedly petiolulate, margin narrowly serrate, stipules membranous, margin entire or serrate.

stipules caducous; leaf blade simple, margin entire or crenate-serrate, venation pinnate.

Stipules lanceolate, abaxially with a longitudinal rib.

stipules membranous, usually deciduous.

stipules not silvery, triangular, rarely lanceolate, short.

Stipules present, free, often deciduous, rarely persistent.

stipules absent; leaf blade elliptic or broadly to narrowly ovate, leathery, margin serrate.

stipules absent. Flowering precocious or coetaneous.

stipules absent; leaf blade entire or slightly incised, rarely lobed or imparipinnate.

Stipules linear, soon caducous after anthesis, margin with distant dark purple glands.

stems and stipules densely covered with cystoliths.

Stipules linear, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate.

Stipules usually membranous, caducous.

stipules green, ovate, herbaceous, abaxially white tomentose, margin sharply serrate.

Stipules lanceolate; leaves simple, margin serrate.

Stipules linear, shorter than petiole, caducous after anthesis.

Leaves alternate; stipules absent; leaf blade margin serrate or serrulate.

bracts ovate, smaller than stipules, sharply serrate, rarely entire.

Stipules glabrous or with arachnoid tomentum. Pedicel and calyx glabrous.

stipules absent. Inflorescence a thyrse, terminal or axillary.

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate; stipules absent. Flowers small, 2 to many fascicled and axillary, pedicellate or sessile.

Stipules linear, margin glandular, apex acuminate.

monoecious. Stipules small, adnate to petiole, caducous.

veins pinnate; stipules absent. Racemes terminal, erect.

Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, simple, margin entire, penninerved.

stipules of cauline leaves broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, free part longer than adnate part.

stipules small and united or absent. Inflorescence a terminal simple umbel, a small raceme of umbels, or a compound umbel.

Stipules persistent, often becoming a rounded, dentate bract.

Stipules linear, margin glandular, apex long acuminate.

Plant with aerial stem. Stipules free, small. Flowers yellow. Anterior petal spurred. Style not beaked at apex; stigmas 2-lobed.

stipules absent. Inflorescence a solitary flower in terminal leaf axil.

stipules persistent, free at junction of stem and petiole, divided or undivided.

stipules membranous. Cauline leaves few, similar to basal ones but much smaller.

stipules persistent or caducous, free, on stem near base of petiole, broad, divided.

stipules sometimes intrapetiolar and adnate to inside of petiole or absent.

Leaves simple, palmately lobed, margins serrate, stipules united with petiole, sheathing at base.

Stipules membranous, splitting into few whitish setae.

Shrubs or trees. Stipules lanceolate. Leaf blade margin entire or serrate.

Stipules lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, densely covered with short white pubescence.

Stipules absent. Leaves simple, spirally arranged or alternate, often crowded, subsessile or petiolate, pinnately veined.

Stipules lanceolate to narrowly lorate, soon caducous, margin gland-tipped fimbriate.

Stipules lanceolate, margin with long-stalked glands.

Stipules linear to oblong-lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, soon caducous after anthesis, margin gland-tipped fimbriate.

true stipules absent, sometimes a stipule-like sheath present at base of petiole.

bracts oblong-lanceolate, nearly as long as stipules, with few teeth along margin.

Stipules lanceolate, caducous, not becoming a bract.

stipules green or green-brown, ovate, herbaceous, abaxially sparsely yellow pilose.

Stipules linear, margin hairy when young, apex long acuminate.

stipules absent but stalked glands present at base of petiole and leaflets.

Stipules linear to subulate, margin with stalked glands.

Rhizome creeping, long and white, with remains of brown stipules.

Stipules absent or rounded and inconspicuous.

Stipules lorate, margin glandular ciliate, apex acuminate.

bracts caducous, smaller than stipules.

Leaf blade adaxially with a broad whitish ring; stipules apically acute.

stipules of cauline leaves acutely incised serrate at apex.

Stipules linear, basally strongly gland-tipped fimbriate.

Herbs, annual or perennial [rarely shrublets or shrubs]. Stipules present.

Stipules caducous, reddish brown, broadly ovate or triangular-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, membranous, puberulous.

stipules adnate or inserted at petiole, rarely absent.

Stipules amplexicaul, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 10-25 cm, pubescence yellowish green, gray, or brown, hairs bent.

Stipules 2, lanceolate-ovate to linear, membranous, caducous, leaving a short transverse scar on each side of leaf base.

Stipules 2-fid at apex; herbs or subshrubs; pedicels of female flowers always present, winged in fruit.

Stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, densely covered with bent hairs.

Stipules very small or absent. Bracts glandular.

stipules united with petiole, sheathing at base.

Leaf blade slightly undulate or inconspicuously lobed; stipules and bracts to 2. 5 cm; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate.

Stipules free, brownish green, small. Flowers white to violet. Anterior petal shallowly saccate but not spurred.

stipules, white flowers and columned pods.

stipules ligulate, partly or fully united.

stipules membranous or hyaline.

Leaf blade thinly herbaceous, abaxially green; stipules large, margin dentate or shallowly lobed.

Leaves palmately lobed to or mostly below middle, but not to base; pseudo-stipules absent.

Leaves and stipules abaxially glabrous; midrib and lateral veins adaxially flattened.

Leaf blade ovate, base cordate; stipules membranous, brownish, 7-10 mm, subpersistent; male flower reddish, perianth lobes not corniculate.

Stipules 2, free, caducous, leaving a short transverse scar on each side of the leaf base.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 2-8 mm, glabrous or pubescent, enfolding naked terminal bud, apex attenuate.

Stipules absent; leaf blade abaxially pruinose.

bracts similar to stipules, but smaller.

Leaves alternate; stipules caducous; leaf blade usually 3-veined, margin usually 3-lobed, serrate.

Branchlets brown pulveraceous-tomentose; stipules obsolete; capsule setae ca. 3 mm.

Stipules lanceolate, 2-3 mm wide, pubescent, erect, soon caducous; leaf margin repand or coarsely serrate.

stipules vestigial or absent.

stipules absent or rarely present.

Stipules lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, densely covered with yellowish brown bent hairs, somewhat persistent.

Stipules 2, membranous, caducous, leaving a short transverse scar on each side of leaf base.

Stipules 2, free, linear, caducous, leaving a short transverse scar on each side of leaf base.

Leaves opposite or rarely whorled, without stipules, simple or 3-foliolate, less often palmately [or pinnately] compound.

Stipules caducous, lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, with hairs.

Stipules linear, ca. 1 cm, margin glandular serrate.

Stipules yellowish brown, lanceolate, 2-3 cm, membranous, with thick hairs.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 cm, membranous, densely pubescent.

Stipules caducous, linear to lanceolate, ca. 5 cm.

8 (7) Stipules usually basally connate, enclosing bud, leaving a single transverse scar that completely encircles stem at each node.

These are probably more accurately termed stipules, but the bulbils are a mystery.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2--4 mm, scarious, margin hyaline, apex acute.

Stipules amplexicaul, ovate, 1. 5-8 cm, with or without bent pubescence, caducous, scar annular and conspicuous.

Stipules caducous, lanceolate, ca. 4 cm.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, ca. 0. 8 cm, membranous, pubescent.

Stipules linear-lanceolate to linear, 2-7 mm, not enclosing bud, caducous.

Stipules ca. 4 cm; fig surface tuberculate.

Leaf blade broadest well below middle, 3-6 cm; stipules less than 3 mm; female sepals all less than 5 mm.

Leaves deeply 3-lobed, lobes dentate; petiole with 2 glands apically; stipules linear-subulate.

stipules margin entire, rarely 2-fid .

Leaf apex caudate, sometimes tricuspid; stipules filiform, 3-4 mm; styles ca. 10 mm, threadlike.

Plants annual. Stems diffuse, slender, rarely rooting at lower nodes, pilose or hirsute, Stipules 0. 5--1. 5 mm, slender, scarious.

Stipules lanceolate, 1-2 cm, with sparse short barbed hairs.

Stipules ca. 2 mm; leaf margin incised-serrulate; achene ca. 1 mm.

Stipules lanceolate, ca. 1 cm.

Stipules caducous, ovate-lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, glabrous or puberulent.

stipules and bracts to 1. 4 cm. Sepals ovate-orbicular.

Stipules lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, densely woolly red rust-colored tomentose.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1. 5-2 cm, membranous, pubescent.

Stipules yellow and white, 1. 5-2. 5 cm; leaf blade glabrous, base not as above; figs axillary on normal leafy shoots.

Buds with 4 or 5 scales; stipules serrate at margin.

stipules elliptic, 2-4 cm long, hairy.

Rhizome short, 2-4 cm, stout, 2-3 mm in diam. , densely noded, often with brown remains of stipules.

Stipules subulate, 1. 5-2 cm, apically curved, sometimes persistent.

Stipules lanceolate, ca. 0. 8 cm.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1-1. 8 cm, pubescent.

Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, glabrous.

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts triangular, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular-pubescent, apex acuminate;

stipules pectinate, mostly adnate to petiole, both surfaces and margin sparsely pubescent, densely glandular-pubescent;

Stipules deciduous after flowering, oblong-lanceolate, membranous, margin ciliate;

stipules adnate to petiole, free parts oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, margin entire or sparsely crenate and glandular, apex acuminate;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, both surfaces pubescent, margin glandular, apex acuminate;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts auriculate, margin entire, glandular-pubescent, apex acuminate;

stipules large, mostly adnate to petiole, free parts ovate, glabrous, margin glandular serrate, apex shortly acuminate;

stipules narrow, mostly adnate to petiole, apical free parts lanceolate, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate;

stipules conspicuous, membranous, margin remotely dentate;

stipules caducous after anthesis, suborbicular, coarsely toothed;

Stipules ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, herbaceous, margin serrate, apex acute;

leaflets usually in many pairs, first pair (near base) small, like stipules, others evidently larger, usually serrate;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts very short, triangular, sometimes glandular, margin entire, apex acute;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, glabrous, margin glandular, apex acuminate;

Leaves simple, alternate or basal, sessile or petiolate but petiole usually indistinct from blade; stipules absent;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, margin entire, glandular-pubescent, apex acute;

stipules often persistent, lateral, intrapetiolar, free;

stipules mostly free, brown or green, lanceolate, margin long or shortly fimbriate-dentate, apex long acuminate;

Stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate;

stipules caducous, free or with base adnate to petiole, lanceolate, glandular serrate, apex acuminate;

cauline leaves small; auricles of stipules herbaceous, margin incised parted or incised serrate;

Proximal cauline leaf stipules semiorbicular, membranous, margin irregularly lobed;

Leaves alternate; stipules connate at base, persistent, rarely caducous;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts broadly ovate, abaxially pubescent, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate;

stipules unequal, one filiform with a single vein, the other linear-lanceolate with 2 or more veins;

stipules linear-subulate, ca. equal to petioles, puberulent, persistent;

Leaves: stipules membranous, base enlarged and clasping, slender;

Leaves basal; stipules adnate to petioles only at base, free part lanceolate, margin fimbriate or erose;

Leaves opposite; stipules forming prickles, ciliate;

Stipules minute, subulate, glabrous, early caducous;

Stipules partly clasping, deeply parted, glandular pilose;

stipules green, ovate or broadly so, herbaceous, abaxially densely white lanate, margin incised dentate, rarely entire;

Leaves alternate; stipules caducous, intrapetiolar, membranous, deeply 2-lobed;

Stipules large, enclosing terminal bud, finally caducous and leaving an annular scar;

Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, simple, generally crowded near apex of twigs;

Stipules broadly flabellate or broadly ovate, margin coarsely crenate or lobed;

Stipules small, intrapetiolarly united, deciduous;

stipules broad, mostly adnate to petiole, free parts ovate, glabrous, apex caudate;

stipules united, deciduous, leaving circular scar around node;

Stipules semiorbicular, herbaceous, margin coarsely acutely serrate or lobed;

Leaves basal; stipules narrow, margin irregularly lobed;

stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts ovate, margin serrate and glandular;

Stipules caducous, lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, membranous, margin entire or with sparse glandular teeth, apex acuminate;

A pair of plant stipules

stipules absent; basal scale-leaves ovate, overlapping;

Stipules deciduous; petiole strongly unequal in length;

stipules deciduous, intrapetiolar, free or rarely connate at base;

Branchlets, stipules, petioles, and leaves densely stellate strigose;

stipules small, shorter than petioles, lanceolate or subtriangular, slightly raised abaxially, pubescent;

Leaves alternate; stipules membranous at base, adnate to petiole;

stipules ovate-lanceolate to ovate, enfolding naked terminal bud;

Leaves all basal; stipules semiorbicular, membranous, margin entire;

Leaves opposite in lower stems, alternate in upper ones, becoming smaller and denser, stipules broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm;

Stipules reniform, large, margin serrate;

Stipules linear; petiole robust, striate;

Leaves alternate; stipules early caducous, intrapetiolar, 2-cleft;

Stipules persistent, broadly triangular, ca. 1 mm, membranous, veinless;

auricles of stipules membranous, connate from base to rounded apex;

Stipules on shoots obliquely ovate, deciduous;

stipules ovate, tiny, margin long ciliate, apex rounded;

stipules dark brown, narrowly lanceolate or subulate, ca. 4 mm, slightly hairy, fugacious;

stipules present, entire or parted to base, membranous;

stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, green;

Stipules free below, partially connate in upper stems;

Stipules lacerate, more or less persistent;

stipules persistent or caducous, large or small;

stipules deciduous, intrapetiolar, 2-cleft;

auricles of stipules free, apex acute to acuminate;

stipules united at base of petiole, apically free, slightly prominent;

stipules dark brown, membranous, abaxially subglabrous;

Leaves basal; stipules free or adnate to petioles only at base, brown, lanceolate, ca. 0. 5 mm, margin fimbriate, apex acuminate;

auricles of stipules connate from base to rounded apex;

stipules small, with a rounded ca. 1 mm in diam. gland;

stipules mostly interpetiolar, membranous, triangular, 1-2 mm, lacerate, caducous when dry;

Stipules narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 mm, papery, glabrous, early caducous, on young growth leaving a large conspicuous pale brown scar;

Stipules linear pointed, very tiny, ca. 4 mm, much shorter than petiole, caducous;

Leaves opposite; stipules membranous, deeply divided into often threadlike lobes, to 1. 5 mm, caducous;

stipules membranous, lanceolate, ca. 8 mm, caducous;

Stipules small, intrapetiolarly united, scale like, apex 2-lobed, deciduous;

Trees. Branchlets robust. Leaves palmately compound; stipules triangularly lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, pilose;

Leaves basal; stipules rose-pink, triangular, 5-7 mm, glabrous, margin entire, apex acuminate;

Leaves basal; stipules deep brown, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, dry membranous, margin fimbriate-dentate, glabrous;

Stipules membranous, linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm;

stipules caducous; petiole long, with 2 adaxial glands at apex;

Stipules free, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-6 mm, margin entire or remotely denticulate, apex acute;

stipules subulate, ca. 7 mm, margin erose, long fimbriate;

stipules linear, to 1 cm, hairy, stipitate glandular;

Buds ovoid, 2-5 mm. Stipules oblique-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, margin serrate, apex long caudate;

Stipules persistent, light green, oblong, 5-8 mm, membranous, veinless ;

Stipules persistent, brownish, narrowly ovate, 3-4 mm, membranous, acute at apex;

stipules almost persistent, deltoid, ca. 1 mm;

Stipules acerose, ca. 3 mm, pilose, deciduous;

stipules broadly ovate, 9-11 mm, base obliquely auriculate, margin entire;

Stipules ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, brownish red;

Stipules ovate-triangular, ca. 3 mm, thick, hard when dry;

stipules brown, lanceolate, 2- or 3-fid or -partite, pubescent glandular;

Stipules triangular, ca. 2 mm, brown-reddish;

Stipules green, ovate, 5-7 mm, margin fimbriate-dentate, apex acuminate;

Leaves opposite; stipules caducous, triangular or ovate-lanceolate, 0. 7-1 mm, membranous, apex acute;

stipules mostly free, brown, broadly lanceolate, 1-1. 5 cm, adaxially brown striate, margin remotely fimbriate-dentate, apex long acuminate;

Stipules triangular-lanceolate, 3-8 mm. Leaves opposite;

Stipules almost persistent, brownish, ovate-lanceolate, 7-10 mm, membranous, 2-ribbed;

Leaves opposite; stipules triangular, to 1. 5 mm, laciniate;