In botany, describing a plant or stem that lacks leaflets or individual leaf segments.
From Latin e- (without) + foliolum (small leaf, diminutive of folium). A technical botanical term created by combining Latin roots to describe plants missing characteristic leaf structures.
Some plants mysteriously lost their leaflets through evolution—like certain acacias that evolved spines instead—making efoliolate plants evolution's way of saying 'we tried something different.'
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