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Q.Find out the wrong pair.

(a) Coriandrum - Decompound
(b) Tamarindus - Palmately compound
(c) Moringa - Tripinnate
(d) Caesalpinia - Bipinnate
Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC First Year (DGE) Board 2019MCQ· 1mImportance★★★★★
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Concept understanding — Types of Leaves (Simple and Compound)

Leaf type refers to how a leaf's blade is divided into discrete segments, judged by the number of segments the petiole bears. A simple leaf has a single, undivided lamina on its petiole - entire (Mango) or incised to some depth, but never right down to the midrib or petiole (Cucurbita). A compound leaf has its main rachis bearing more than one small lamina, called leaflets, with only one axillary bud at the base of the whole compound leaf.

Pinnately compound leaves bear leaflets laterally along the rachis. A simple, unbranched rachis bearing leaflets directly is unipinnate - paripinnate if the leaflets are even in number (Tamarindus, Cassia) or imparipinnate if odd, with one unpaired terminal leaflet (Rosa, neem). If the primary rachis branches once into secondary rachii (pinnae), the leaf is bipinnate (Delonix, Caesalpinia); branching again into tertiary rachii makes it tripinnate (Moringa); repeated, irregular branching makes it decompound (Daucus carota, Coriandrum). …

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