Dicotyledonous Leaf

What is Dicotyledonous Leaf?

The leaf of a dicotyledonous plant, seen in transverse section as a series of layers: a waxy cuticle over an upper epidermis, a palisade mesophyll of tall closely packed cells containing many chloroplasts, a spongy mesophyll of rounded cells separated by air spaces, vascular bundles containing xylem above phloem, and a lower epidermis containing stomata, each bounded by two guard cells, covered by a lower cuticle.

This definition is part of the Plant Nutrition chapter in Cambridge O Level Biology.

Concepts related to Dicotyledonous Leaf

• Palisade Mesophyll
• Stoma
• xylem
• phloem