Treehugger / Hilary Allison Studying leaf shape and the arrangement of leaves on a stem is the most common way of identifying a tree in the field during the growing season. The novice taxonomist ...

Harvard University. "Cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 November 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 11 / 091123152226.htm>.

Article Open access Published: 15 May 2012 Developmentally based scaling of leaf venation architecture explains global ecological patterns Lawren Sack, Christine Scoffoni, Athena D. McKown ...

However, changes in leaf shape and orientation and in stem length can compensate for the negative effects of leaf overlap produced by phyllotactic patterns. Phyllotaxy is viewed as a developmental ...

A combined genetic and morphometric approach was used to study leaf shape and size variability among three sympatric and interfertile white oak species (Quercus frainetto, Quercus petraea, and Quercus ...