Editing Stipule (section)

{{Short description|Appendage of a leaf in flowering plants}}
In [[botany]], a '''stipule''' is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the [[petiole (botany)|petiole]]). They are primarily found among [[dicots]] and rare among [[monocots]]. Stipules are considered part of the anatomy of the [[leaf]] of a typical [[flowering plant]], although in many species they may be inconspicuous —or sometimes entirely absent, and the leaf is then termed '''''exstipulate'''''. At the other end of the scale are species like ''[[Artocarpus elasticus]]'' where the stipules can be up to eight inches (twenty cm) in length. (In some older botanical writing, the term "stipule" was used more generally to refer to any small leaves or leaf-parts, notably [[prophyll]]s.)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/organographyofpl02goeb|title=Organography of plants, especially of the Archegoniatae and Spermaphyta|publisher=Hofner publishing company|year=1969|volume=Part 2 Special organography|location=New York|author=Goebel, K.E.v.|orig-year=1905|translator=I.B. Balfour}}</ref> The word  ''stipule'' was coined by [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]<ref name=CED>''Concise English Dictionary'' Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1994, {{ISBN|1-85326-328-1}}</ref> from [[Latin]] ''stipula'', straw, stalk.