Lichtensteinia lacera leaves

The large leaves of Lichtensteinia lacera are radical, meaning they grow from the ground. The leaves form a tuft on short, thick, whitish petioles.

Ovate in shape, the leaves are sometimes deeply cut into three segments. The dark green blades are dominated by their thick, white but diminishing midribs from which a few large, crooked lateral veins branch repeatedly into clearly reticulated net-veining.

The margins are angularly large-toothed and somewhat wavy (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.) 2000; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).