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Vegetative

46-Pinnately compound

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A leaf is pinnately compound when the leaflets are attached to a central axis, called the rachis, in two rows on opposite sides (like the vanes of a feather). See the pinnately compound leaf of a rose in Image No. 44.

Photo by K. R. Robertson in Jamaica.

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