The seed organs are curious, the stigma being foot-stalked, peltate, and placed between and above the anthers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Leaves are peltate, 60-90 cm in diameter on very long petioles and are often raised 1-2 m above the surface of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 22] Reference

Fronds oblong, two to seven inches long, deeply pinnátifid, gray and scurfy underneath with peltate scales having a dark center.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

= -- The leaves of Hazels may often be found with their margins coherent at the base, so as to become peltate, while in other cases, the disc of the leaf is so depressed that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The leaves are nearly round in outline, sub-peltate, five, but sometimes only three-lobed; lobes entire, sometimes notched, smooth and glaucous; the leaf-stalks are long and bent, and act as tendrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The leaves are heart-shaped, 20 - 50 cm long, with rounded basal lobes; the leaf stalk joins the blade some distance inward from the notch between the lobes (ie the leaf is peltate - a feature which distinguishes the plant from the rather similar Xanthosoma).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

I have written of a lake, but no water was visible, for it was concealed by thousands and thousands of the peltate leaves of the lotus, nearly round, attaining a diameter of eighteen inches, cool and dewy-looking under the torrid sun, with a blue bloom upon their intense green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

As the specific name implies, the leaves are peltate or umbrella-shaped, deeply lobed, each lobe being deeply cut, and all unevenly toothed and hairy at the edges, with a fine down covering the under sides; the upper surface is of a lively, shining green colour, and finely veined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Stigma peltate, sometimes bilobed, sometimes 4-lobed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Style very short and thick, stigma peltate, divided into 10 parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Anthers of irregular shape, peltate, with the borders deeply undulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

In peltate leaves, the petiole attaches to the blade inside from the blade margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Navelwort turned out to be "a European herb having round, peltate leaves with a central depression.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference

From the evidence of the lime-tree we may conclude that normal peltate leaves may have originated in the same way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

In every instance the previously existing shape of the leaf must have decided whether peltate or pitcher-like leaves would be formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

They remain flat, become peltate and exhibit a shape which in some way holds a middle position between the pennyworts and the lemon-scented eucalyptus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

As far as we can judge peltate anomalies are quite uninjurious, while ascidia are forms which must impede the effect of the light on the leaf, as they conceal quite an important part of the upper surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

And from the fact that pitchers are one of the most frequent anomalies, we may conclude that the chance of producing peltate leaves must have been a very great one, and wholly sufficient to account for all observed cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

In this way it is easily conceivable that peltate leaves are a frequent specific character, while ascidia are not, as they only appear in the special cases of limited adaptation, as in the instances of the so called pitcher-plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

A tree 20° high, with leaves alternate, peltate, slightly cordate, orbicular, the apex divided into two large lobules with a stylet between them, glabrous above, somewhat downy beneath; 2 large, flat glandules are situated at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

This plant grows, with a simple tap root, in the deep soft mud, bearing one large peltate leaf on a leaf stalk, about eight feet high, and from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, the flower-stalk being of the same length or even longer, crowned with a pink flower resembling that of a Nymphaea, but much larger: its seed-vessel is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

Diss., 'tab., 106) will show how easy the passage is from a peltate to a tubular leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Leaves peltate, palmately cleft in 7 or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Our third example relates to peltate leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference