taken as comb. form of LOBATE in the sense ‘lobate and…,’ as lobato-digitate, -foliaceous, -ramose, etc.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 618. Branches much compressed, very broad,… *lobato-digitate. Ibid., 647. Flabellate and *lobato-foliaceous. Ibid., 496. Branchlets angular, irregular, *lobato-ramulose.
1871. W. A. Leighton, Lichen-flora, 21. Lobato-divided or subradiate. Ibid., 26. Lobato-partite at the apex.
1889. Syd. Soc. Lex., *Lobato-sinuate, applied to a lobate leaf which has curved sinuations between the lobes.
