Having been formed with or possessing a small, pointed apex or tip, particularly used in describing plant structures.
Past participle form of apiculate, used as an adjective. This is a more emphatic botanical descriptor emphasizing the presence of the pointed structure.
The -ed ending makes this sound like the plant was deliberately shaped with these little points—which in a way it was, through evolutionary selection for specific leaf shapes!
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