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Small bulb or bulb-like structure.  

Producing bulbils.  

A small, usually axillary bulb (e.g. in the axil of a leaf ) capable of developing into a new plant. A small bulb or bulblike structure growing in a leaf axil or among the florets of a flower cluster, which falls to the ground and takes root there.  

Underground storage organ; the bud(s) enclosed by fleshy scale leaves and/or leaf bases. A short vertical, underground shoot that has modified leaves or thickened leaf bases prominently developed as food-storage organs. Modified short, underground stem surrounded by a row of fleshy leaves with thickened bases (e.g., Onion). Cluster of fleshy storage leaves gathered tightly together…

The coverings of the bud.  

A meristem (either apical or lateral) in early development or resting stages, with its protective coverings; immature shoot, usually protected by scales or prophyll(s), or immature flower, protected by bracts, bracteoles and/or perianth segments. A small swelling or projection on a branch from which a shoot, cluster of leaves, or flower develops. A branch in…

With loopveined venation; main veins emerging from the midrib at regular intervals, at the margin turning towards the apex and looping to join the next vein upwards.