Meaning of amphigastrium | Babel Free

Definitions

A small scale-like leaf on the underside of stems of certain liverworts.

Examples

“CHILOSCYPHUS. — Plant ; portion of the stem, with involucral leaves, perianth, and calyptra ; […] portion of the stem, with a leaf and an amphigastrium”

“Stems more or less regularly pinnate, more rarely dichotomously branched. Leaves incubous, conduplicate, the hinder lobe smallest—saccate, galeate, cucullate or flattish. Amphigastria mostly present, rarely wanting.”

“Key to the South African species of Lejeunea. […] d. Base of the amphigastrium with rounded appendages below the insertion, the sinus of which thus is more than semicircular. L. isomorpha.”

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