Designating a form of vernation in which the margins of opposite leaves overlap each other alternately.

Modern dictionaries also have conˈduplicated adj. Doubled or folded together: said of leaves when they are folded down lengthwise along the middle.

Botany. Of a leaf in the bud: Coiled laterally upon itself so that one margin is within the coil and the other without. Of petals in the bud…

Of æstivation or vernation: Characterized by this arrangement of parts.

literal. Rounded, made circular; spec. applied to that mode of vernation or foliation in which the leaf is rolled up on its axis from the apex to…

Arranged in rings or convolutions. In Botany = circinate, adj.; also, see quot. 1836.

Folded or rolled in at the edges, without overlapping: said of leaves and petals in vernation or æstivation.

Of an individual leaf, petal, or lobe of a corolla: rolled inwards so that one margin is overlapped by its opposite edge. Also (of vernation or…

Esp. of aestivation: = supervolute, adj.

Designating forms of phyllotaxis in which the leaf completing one complete turn of a spiral or whorl lies directly over the first leaf.

Having a circinate foliation.

(See quots.).

Having the upper margin of each leaf covered by the lower margin of the one succeeding it: applied to some of the Jungermanniaceæ.

= induplicate, adj.

= convolute, adj. 1.

Botany. = circinate, adj.

= obvolute, adj.

(See quot. 1900.)