A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

palmate, in a simple (not compound) leaf: lobed or divided in the manner of an outspread hand with the sinuses between the lobes pointing to the place of attachment (Stearn), (in fungi) “having finger-like processes” (Ainsworth & Bisby); “having five lobes, the mid-ribs of which meet in a common point, so that the whole bears come resemblance to a human hand, as the leaf of the Maple [Acer]” (Lindley); “(leaf) radiately lobed or divided” (Fernald 1950); digitate; digitatus,-a,-um (adj.A), digitate, q.v., e.g. with leaflets radiating from tip of leaf-stalk, palmate: palmatus,-a,-um (adj.A) [> L. palma (s.f.I), q.v.]; cf. pedatus,-a,-um (adj.A), pedate, i.e. palmate but with the lateral lobes or divisions themselves divided; see digitate;

NOTE: in simple leaves without leaflets, i.e. the radiating fingers are joined together toward the base. Digitate, q.v. leaves are compound and are composed of separate leaflets, i.e. palmately compound.

- foliis palmatis ultra medium 3-5-lobatis (DeCandolle), with the leaves palmate, 3-5-lobed beyond the middle.

- folia palmatifida v. digitata (B&H), leaves palmately divided or digitate.

- squamae perigynandae, polylepidae , aculeato-imbricatae: aculéis palmatis , in semicirculum dispositis (Necker), the scales of the involucre polylepidous, spiney-imbricate, with the spines palmate, arranged in a half-circle.

- aculei singularum squamarum, palmati seu in semicirculum disponuntur (Necker), the spines of the individual scales, palmate or arranged into a semicircular.

- (liverwort) Jungermannia frondibus suborbiculatis palmatis dichotome radiatis nervosis(Hooker), Jungermannia with the fronds almost circular, palmate, dichotomously radiate with prominent nerves.

NOTE: -fidus,-a,-um (adj.A): in L. comp., divided (usually within the outer third of the structure or organ)

Arnica palmata; Artemisia palmata; Berkheya palmata; Chrysanthemum palmatum; Diaspananthus palmatus