Question

Cycas leaflets are

• A. Sessile, straight and spherical
• B. Sessile, straight and linear-lanceolate
• C. Sessile, straight and spiny
• D. Sessile, smooth and twisted

Answer 1

The correct option is B Sessile, straight and linear-lanceolate

Cycas leaves are dimorphic and show habitual heterophylly. The two types of leaves are scale leaves and foliage leaves. Foliage leaves are spirally borne on a terminal crown. These are unipinnate and paripinnate compound and fairly large. These are attached to the stem by rhomboidal leaf bases. It has stout rachis on whose lateral side 50-100 pairs of leaflets are arranged. Each leaflet is lanceolate, leathery, sessile and has a single midrib.

so, the correct answer is 'Sessile, straight and linear-lanceolate'