Fortunes are told by pulling off leaflets of a compound leaf, such as the locust, repeating, "Rich man, poor man," etc.
It is never a real compound leaf, though, unless the leaflets are truly separate and all belong on one common stalk.
The stalk of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
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At the border of thecompoundleafzones carrying leaflets and tendrils, mixed leaflet\\tendril pairs are frequent, both organs having proper identity.
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Eachcompoundleafends in a branched tendril.
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The leaf is arranged in alternate and is pinnatelycompoundleafvenation.
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The leaf lamina is notably pinnatifid with some areas almost being acompoundleafstructure.
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Thecompoundleafstem is 3 to 10 cm long, mostly flattened on the top part, with two sharp edges.
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Leaflets without a stalk, but thecompoundleafhas a stalk between 1 to 3 cm long.
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These finger-like segments are not individual leaves, but parts of a singlecompoundleaf.
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Thecompoundleafstem is between 2 and 10 cm long.
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Eachcompoundleafconsists of 30-40 leaflets, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate.
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The ultimate free division (or leaflet) of acompoundleaf, or a pinnate subdivision of a multipinnate leaf is called a pinnule or pinnula.
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Thecompoundleafstalk is brown and hairy, swollen where it joins the branchlet.
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Each leaflet is 2.511 cm long and 1245 mm wide, with those towards the end of thecompoundleaftending to be smaller.
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A "terminal leaflet" is seen on the end of thecompoundleaf.
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The two main classes ofcompoundleafmorphology are palmate and pinnate.
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Eachcompoundleafcontains 1533 pairs of bright green leaflets long.
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