Bhagavan, S.Subbaiah, C.C.2014-07-082014-07-082007-02J.Plantn.Crops 1983 v-11 i-2 p-135-138http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3816The area of an individual leaf in a three month old cashew (Anacardium ocddentale L.) seedling can be estimated by simple linear functions, leaf area A = —17.194 4 4.607 L using length (L) alone or A = 0.74 + 0.668 P where P is the product of both the linear measurements (L and B). The latter equation is superior with a predictive ability (R2) of 90.73% to the former (R2 = 78.14%). Employing the total number of leaves (N) and the product of linear measurements (L and B) of the median leaf (P med ), another equation is derived to compute the total leaf area (TLA) of the seedling, TLA = 2.63 N1.23 P0.5579 med with R2 as high as 86.71%.enArticle