Paleobotany

The Manual of Leaf Architecture

Morphological Description and Characterization of Dicotyledonous
and Net-veined Monocotyledonous Angiosperms

The main goal of the The Manual of Leaf Architecture is to define and illustrate for the reader an unambiguous and standard set of terms for describing leaf form and venation, particularly of dicots, and also to provide a template and set of instructions that show how descriptive information can be entered into a standardized database of fossil and extant leaves.

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Developed, published and distributed by the Leaf Architecture Working Group, which adopted, and in some cases added or modified, the definitions and terms found in this manual, and developed its format.

Published and distributed by the Leaf Architecture Working Group.
Paper copies of this manual were printed privately in Washington, D.C.
ISBN 0-9677554-0-9
© 1999 Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.

Paper copies are available for purchase by contacting:

Leaf Architecture Working Group
c/o Scott Wing
Department of Paleobiology
Smithsonian Institution
10th St.and Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20560-0121
wing.scott@nmnh.si.edu

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