stasis

Keeping it simple: flowering plants tend to retain, and revert to, simple leaves

• A wide range of factors (developmental, physiological, ecological) with unpredictable inter- actions control variation in leaf form. …

R. Geeta, Liliana M. Dávalos, André Levy, Lynn Bohs, Mathew Lavin, Klaus Mummenhoff, Neelima Sinha, Martin F. Wojciechowski