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Definition of petiolate in English:

petiolate

adjective

Botany

‘Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.’

‘The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves.’
‘Several other plants had flowers borne on pedicels about three cm. long and petiolate bracts, the bracts being about as long as the pedicels.’
‘Lechea mucronata might sometimes be confused with L. minor, which also has petiolate leaves and keeled sepals.’