Meanings
- not comparableSlightly leathery
Leaf narrowly obovate-oblanceolate, 6–10 x 1.2–1.8 cm, minutely emarginate at apex, the mid-vein protruding abaxially into a small apicule, gradually tapering toward the base into a deeply conduplicate petiole with strongly ancipitous margins, subcoriaceous.
2015 July 25, “Specklinia dunstervillei, a New Species Long Confused with Specklinia endotrachys (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
- Latinsubcoriāceus
- Englishsubcoriaceous
Borrowed from Latin subcoriāceus. By surface analysis, sub- + coriaceous.
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Latin subcoriāceus
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subcoriaceous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcoriaceous
“subcoriaceous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcoriaceous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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