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Glossary: wing

Definition:

  1. (in general) any flat expansion of an organ;
  2. each of the two lateral petals in the flowers of the Papilionoideae;
  3. each of the two inner, usually petaloid, sepals in the flowers of the Polygalaceae.

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Glossary details: wing.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/glossary-display.php?glossary_id=838, retrieved 21 December 2024

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