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Compound Leaves - Trifoliolate

Trifoliolate - having three leaflets arising from the same point, therefore one leaf.

NOTE: trifoliate means 'having three leaves.' Some books use the terms interchangeably but, for example, a clover leaf is trifoliolate, not trifoliate

Clarke, I. & Lee, H. (1987) Name that Flower, Melbourne University Press, Victoria.

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