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Mathematical treatment of leaf veins
Many dicotyledonous species have leaves in which secondary veins have clearly measurable lengths. Burton (pp. 149-156) shows that, in at least 23 species, a single empirical formula effectively relates secondary vein lengths to their positions on the midrib. Its generality across eight or more families suggests that there are corresponding quantitative similarities in growth processes.
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