Meanings
nounlimbidium (plural limbidia)
plural limbidia
- biologyA differentiated margin of the leaf of a moss.
The leaf margin, which consists of a band of uni-stratose to pluri-stratose, hyaline-yellowish, prosenchymatous, stereid cells is called limbidium. In some species, the limbidium can be well developed in all three laminae.
2020, Afroz Alam, Contemporary Research on Bryophytes, page 165
Origin
From Latin limbus (“edge”) + -idium.
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