Limbidium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A differentiated margin of the leaf of a moss.

    "The leaf margin, which consists of a band of uni-stratose to pluri-stratose, hyaline-yellowish, prosenchymatous, stereid cells is called limbidium. In some species, the limbidium can be well developed in all three laminae."

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"The leaf margin, which consists of a band of uni-stratose to pluri-stratose, hyaline-yellowish, prosenchymatous, stereid cells is called limbidium. In some species, the limbidium can be well developed in all three laminae."

Etymology

From Latin limbus (“edge”) + -idium.

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