stipule

At the base of each leaf is a toothed stipule with, usually, a dark spot in the centre.

Leaves opposite without stipules (petioles sometimes with stipule-like appendages).

Amphigastrium (plural, amphigastria), a peculiar stipule-like leaf of Liverworts.

Un ministre stipule pour le Roi, mais il travaille et craint pour lui-mme.

At first a sheathing stipule, like a little leafy ruffle, grows at the base of each leaf, but this is shed before midsummer.