• (British, America) IPA: /ˈsʌk.jʊ.bəs/, /ˈsʌk.jə.bəs/

succubous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.
   • 1966, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, OCLC 896653355 ↗, page 482:

     If the apical cell is slightly antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results {{...}

• (of leaves) incubous

• succubus