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In mycology, a stolon is defined as an occasionally septate hypha, which connects sporangiophores together. Root-like structures called rhizoids may appear on the stolon as well, anchoring the hyphae to the substrate. The stolon is commonly found in bread molds, and are seen as horizontally expanding across the mold.
A stem tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ. [10] In general, a tuber is high in starch, e.g. the potato, which is a modified stolon. The term "tuber" is often used imprecisely and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.
In botany, a root sprout or sucker is a severable plant that grows not from a seed but from the meristem of a root at the base of or a certain distance from the original tree or shrub. Root sprouts may emerge a substantial distance from the base of the originating plant, are a form of vegetative dispersal , and may form a patch that constitutes ...
Among the flukes belonging to class Digenea, there are two suckers, namely an oral sucker and a ventral sucker (often called acetabulum). [7] The oral sucker is at the tip of the anterior body and directly surrounds the mouth. The ventral sucker is located halfway to the middle of the body on the ventral side.
Underground stems are modified plant parts that derive from stem tissue but exist under the soil surface. [1] They function as storage tissues for food and nutrients, facilitate the propagation of new clones, and aid in perennation (survival from one growing season to the next). [2]
Catostomus fumeiventris R. R. Miller, 1973 (Owens sucker) Catostomus insignis Baird & Girard, 1854 (Sonora sucker) Catostomus latipinnis Baird & Girard, 1853 (flannelmouth sucker) Catostomus leopoldi Siebert & W. L. Minckley, 1986 (Bavispe sucker) Catostomus macrocheilus Girard, 1856 (largescale sucker) Catostomus microps Rutter, 1908 (Modoc ...
An offset or 'pup' may also be used as a broad term to refer to any short shoot originating from the ground at the base of another shoot. [2] The term 'sucker' has also been used as well, especially for bromeliads, which can be short lived plants and when the parent plant has flowered, they signal the root nodes to form new plants. [1]
Acetabulum / æ s ɪ ˈ t æ b j ʊ l ə m / (pl.: acetabula) in invertebrate zoology is a saucer-shaped organ of attachment in some annelid worms (like leech) and flatworms.It is a specialised sucker for parasitic adaptation in trematodes by which the worms are able to attach on the host. [1]