A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

sagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A), sagittiformis,-e (adj.B), sagittalis,-e (adj.A): sagittate, barbed; “gradually enlarged at the base into two acute straight lobes, like the head of an arrow; as the leaf of Rumex Acetosella” (Lindley); “shaped like an arrow-head, the basal lobes directed downward or backward” (Fernald 1950); shaped like an arrow-head with two equal sharp basal lobes directed downwards (Stearn); see ‘barbed;’

NOTE: hastate, shaped like an arrow but with the basal lobes pointing outward at wide angles; see hastatus,-a,-um (adj.A);

- folia radicalia sagittata, appendicibus sursum erectis (DeCandolle), basal leaves sagittate, with the appendices upwardly erect.

- [Caltha sagittata] foliis sagittatis auriculatis sursum inflexis (DeCandolle), with the leaves sagittate, auriculate, upwardly inflexed.

- antherae sagittato-oblongae biloculares (F.Muell.) the anthers sagittate-oblong, with two locules.

- antherae áureae supra basin affixae cordato-sagittatae (F. Muell.), the anthers golden-yellow, attached above the base, heart-shaped -sagittate.

- antheris corolla parva circiter duplo brevioribus basi subsagittatis. (F. Muell.), with the anthers around two-times shorter than the small corolla, nearly arrow-shaped at the base.

- antheris sagittato-linearibus [lineari-sagittatis](F. Muell.), with the anthers sagittate-linear [linear-sagittate].

- antherae apice appendiculatae, basi sagittatae, auriculis obtusis acutis v. rarius breviter subcaudato-acuminatis antherarum contiguarum connatis v. rarius liberis (B&H), the anthers at the apex with appendages, sagittate at the base, with the auricles of the contiguous anthers obtuse, acute or more rarely shortly subcaudate-acuminate, connate or more rarely free.

- antherae oblongae, erectae, basi obtusae v. sagittatae, loculis contiguis rima longitudinali dehiscentibus(B&H), anthers oblong, erect, obtuse at the base or sagittate, with the locules contiguous, dehiscent by a longitudinal slit.

- [algae] articulis basilaribus teretibus brevissimis moniliformibus, mediis superioribusque compressis late deltoideis obcordatisve angulis lateralibus porrectis acutis vel comigeris, articulis ramulorum subsagittatis, ultimis lanceolatis, with the basal articulations rounded-cylindric, very short, moniliform, with the middle and upper compressed, broadly deltoid or obcordate, with the lateral angles porrect [i.e. outward and forward] acute or in tufts, with the articulations of the branchlets mostly sagittate, the terminal ones lanceolate.

auriculato-sagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A): auriculately-sagittate, eared at the base, so as to give the leaf the appearance of the head of an arrow (Paxton).

cordato-sagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A): “between cordate, q.v., and sagittate” (Lindley).

lanceolate-sagittate, “a sagittate leaf, whose principal form is lanceolate” (Lindley): lanceolato-sagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A).

- foliis caulinis sagittato-amplexicaulibus, with the cauline leaves sagittate-amplexicaul [i.e. the sagittate basal lobes encircling the stem].

- foliis caulinis sagittato-semi-amplexicaulibas, with the cauline leaves semi-sagittate amplexicaul [i.e. the sahittate basal lobes halfway encirclinf the stem].

hastato-sagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A): hastate-sagittate, with the (basal lobes) somewhat away from the axis (hastate) and somewhat downward (sagittate).

semisagittatus,-a,-um (adj.A), one half sagittate, as in two lobes, one sagittate, the other some other shape: Pterolaena semisagittatum, foliis oblongis acuminatis integris basi cordatis, lobulis inaequalibus, alio brevi obtuso, altero longe producto acuminato (DeCandolle), with the leaves oblong, acuminate, entire, cordate at the base, with the lobules unequal, with one [lobe] short, obtuse, the other [lobe] long extended, acuminate.

Arabis sagittata; Aristolochia sagittata; Turritis sagittata; Viola sagittata.

Ipomoea sagittata.

Baccharis sagittalis; Conyza sagittalis; Molina sagittalis