Leaves are alternate on the stem with their base sessile and clasping or shortly decurrent. Individual type of arms folding is slightly less studied than the manner of clasping hands. In clasping or decurrent leaves, the blade partially surrounds the stem. Males usually have exaggerated mandibles compared to the females, used for clasping during copulation. They may be linked by the arms or by clasping hands. There are amplexicaul (clasping the stem) sheathing stipules. There were buttresses, including clasping buttresses at the w end. After a long search, Olive stumbles upon the spellbook, which is held in clasping hands. Therefore, the specific epithet means "clasping buttressed vertebrae" in Latin. Betrothal customs include "Kaipidutham", or "clasping of hands". Stem leaves are smaller and often narrower, and are unstalked or clasping the stem. The upper leaves have a clasping base. In Canada, however, this was replaced with a crowned lion clasping a maple leaf. The second attacker jumps over the first, with the first still clasping Ogami's blade. Rose catches Jenny clasping Alex in a very adult fashion, and Alex leaves.