About the project Digiphyll
Manual: How to use this portal
Manual: Leaf Morphological Characters
Manual: Leaf Cuticle Characters
1a. Select leaf traits
For trait selection please expand the black (and blue) boxes below and choose the relevant checkboxes; the correspondent fossil taxa are listed on the right.
macroscopic leaf traits (morphology)
Leaf Shape Characters
Petiole
> Petiole present
Leaf organisation
> Leaf compound
Leaf shape
> lamina lobed
Leaf base angle
Leaf base shape
> base without basal extension
> base with basal extension
Leaf apex angle
Leaf apex shape
Leaf margin
> Margin toothed
Leaf teeth
> Number of teeth orders
> Tooth density
> Tooth size
> Tooth apex shape
> Tooth sinus shape
Leaf Venation Characters
Primary vein framework
> Venation palmate
> Actinodromous
> Acrodromous
Secondary vein framework
> 2° reach the leaf margin
> 2° do not reach the leaf margin
> Veins eucamptodromous
> 2° form loops
Intramarginal vein
Intersecondary veins
Tertiary vein framework
> 3° vein framework percurrent
microscopic leaf traits (cuticle)
Adaxial Cuticle
Thickness
Anticline
Anticline-course
> Anticline-course: undulate
Cell surface
Surface ornamentation
Trichome
> Trichome present
Trichome base
Trichome base cells
> Trichome base cells modified
Trichome base poral rim
Trichome base foot
Trichome stalk
Trichome head
> Trichome head one-celled
> Trichome head one celled, linear (flagelliform)
> Trichome head pluricellular
Epidermal secretory cells
Mesophyll
Secretory cells
> Secretory cells present
> Secretory cells sporadic
> Secretory cells dense
Abaxial Cuticle
Thickness
Anticline
Anticline-course
> Anticline-course: undulate
Cell surface
Surface ornamentation
Trichome
> Trichome present
Trichome base
Trichome base cells
> Trichome base cells modified
Trichome base poral rim
Trichome base foot
Trichome stalk
Trichome head
> Trichome head one-celled
> Trichome head one celled, linear (flagelliform)
> Trichome head pluricellular
Epidermal secretory cells
Stomatal complex type
Stoma orientation
Stoma distribution
Stoma position relative to epidermis
Stoma shape
Guard cells
> Guard cells with polar thickenings
Stomatal ledges
Front cavity
1b. Select a fossil taxon of the extracted species list
In order to get further information of a single species please select a row from the list below. Further information of the selected taxon is displayed in the respective tab panels on the top side.