Acicular
needle shaped
Acuminate
tapering to a long point
Alternate
leaflets arranged alternately
Aristate
with a spine-like tip
Bipinnate
leaflets also pinnate
Cordate
heart-shaped, stem in cleft
Cuneate
wedge shaped, acute base
Deltoid
triangular
Digitate
with finger like lobes
Elliptic
oval-shaped, small or no point
Falcate
hooked or sickle-shaped
Flabellate
fan-shaped
Hastate
triangualr with basal lobes
Lanceolate
pointed at both ends
Linear
parellel margins, elongate
Lobed
deeply indented margins
Obcordate
heart-shaped, stem at point
Obovate
egg-shaped, narrow at base
Obtuse
narrow at tip
Opposite
leaflets in adjacent pairs
Orbicular
circular
Ovate
egg-shaped, wide at base
Palmate
resembles a hand
Pedate
palmate, divided lateral lobes
Peltate
stem attached centrally
Perfoliate
stem seeming to pierce leaf
Odd pinnate
leaflets in row, one at tip
Even pinnate
leaflets in row, two at tip
Pinnatisect
deep, opposite lobing
Reniform
kidney-shaped
Rhomboid
diamond-shaped
Rosette
leaflets in tight, circular rings
Spatulate
spoon-shaped
Spear-shaped
pointed, barbed base
Subulate
tapering point, awl-shaped
Trifoliate/Ternate
leaflets in threes
Tripinnate
leaflets also bipinnate
Truncate
squared-off apex
Unifoliate
having a single leaf
Whorled
rings of three or more leaflets
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