heterophylly

Definitions

noun In botany, the condition of having leaves different from the regular form.

noun botany Marked changes in leaf morphology induced by environmental conditions; the ability to display such changes.
noun botany Significant variation in leaf shape on a same plant.

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This is the condition to which the term heterophylly properly applies.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
Commonly, more than one type may be found on a single plant; this is called heterophylly.

Macrophytes 2007
= -- This term, applied specially to the varied form which the flowers or some of their constituent elements assume on the same plant, is an analogous phenomenon to what has been above spoken of as heterophylly, and, like it, it cannot, except under special circumstances, be considered as of teratological importance.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters