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What is a phyllody?

What is a phyllody? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.
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Many of these cases, and others that might be cited, are probably instances of frondescence or phyllody.
Some of the above are probably cases of mere virescence rather than of phyllody.
Transmission experiments on coconut lethal yellowing disease with Deltocephalus flavicosta Stal, a leafhopper vector of periwinkle phyllody in Jamaica.
In the subtlest cases of reflowering there is little internode elongation on reversion and plants display varying degrees of phyllody before continuing flower development.

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