abaxial in a sentence

Examples

1. The leafblades may be hairy or glabrous, canaliculate and marked with maroon spots and bars on the abaxial surface.
2. Case-making larvae were collected on the abaxial surface of old fronds of " Cibotium glaucum ".
3. The stomata are usually restricted to the abaxial or underside of the leaf, forming two stomatal bands around the midrib.
4. The xylem typically lies on the adaxial side of the vascular bundle and the phloem typically lies on the abaxial side.
5. The mine has the form of an abaxial, oval, blotch-mine situated close to the base of the leaflet.
6. A few angiosperms produce vascular tissue in the outer integument, the orientation of which suggests that the outer surface is morphologically abaxial.
7. The adaxial and abaxial surface of the leaf is covered with yellowish or purplish spines that grow from purple wart-like structures.
8. In a leaf, the adaxial surface of the leaf will usually be the upper side, with the abaxial surface the lower side.
9. In ferns, sporangia are typically found on the abaxial surface ( underside ) of the leaf and are densely aggregated into clusters called sori.
10. At first it was thought to be a relation of the Cyatheaceae because of the characteristic abaxial sori, or the pattern of gametophyte germination.