Question

Following figure shows ____________ type of leaf.

• A. Simple leaf with palmate venation
• B. Simple leaf with pinnate venation
• C. Pinnately Compound leaf
• D. Palmately Compound leaf

Answer 1

The correct option is A Simple leaf with palmate venation

A leaf is said to be simple, when its lamina is entire or when incised, the incisions do not touch the midrib. When the incisions of the lamina reach up to the midrib breaking it into a number of leaflets, the leaf is called compound. Here incisions are there but they are not complete so it is a simple leaf and it has palmate / multicostate divergent reticulate venation in which a number of principal veins arise from the tip of the petiole and reach either the apex or margins of lamina and they diverge distally.