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Vegetative
46-Pinnately compound
A leaf is
pinnately compound
when the leaflets are attached to a central axis, called the
rachis
, in two rows on opposite sides (like the vanes of a feather). See the pinnately compound leaf of a rose in Image No. 44.
Photo by K. R. Robertson in Jamaica.
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