Morphological and developmental features of seedlings of Platonia insignis Mart, are here described. The seedling is cryptocotylar, hypogeal. The primary root is axial; opposite scale leaves (cataphylls) precede the foliage leaves (metaphylls) in the epicotyl. The metaphylls are simple, eliptic, decussate, short petiolate; venation pattern is pinnate, camptodromous, and strongly brochidodromous.
Platonia insignis Mart; germination; seedling