quinquefolium
/kwin-kweh-FOH-lee-um/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
A leaf shape epithet marking foliage borne in fives, whether as five true leaflets on one stalk or five leaves in a whorl - a count that separates the species at a glance. This is the neuter form, paired with neuter genus names. Appears as quinquefolius (masculine), quinquefolia (feminine), or quinquefolium (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin quinque (five) + folium (leaf).
Example
“Rhododendron quinquefolium (quinquefolium azalea) sets its leaves in fives at the shoot tips, and takes the neuter ending to agree with Rhododendron.”