vegetative

vegetatiivinen Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
puhekieltä Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V)

In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.