The term succubous is used to describe the way in which the leaves of a liverwort are attached to the stem. If one was to look down from above (dorsal side) on a plant where the leaf attachment is succubous, the lower edge of each leaf would overlap the next lower leaf along the stem. Because of this, the lower edge of each leaf is visible from ab...
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• (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
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Suc'cu·bous adjective [ See
Succuba .]
(Botany) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus
Plagiochila .
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(of leaves) overlapping, with the base of each leaf covering part of that under it. Cf.
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