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Also, moving from leaves to roots, e.g. of molecular signals in plants. bathyphyll A specialized leaf produced at the base of a plant, usually when the plant is immature, and which serves to anchor the plant to a substrate; especially notable in the fern Teratophyllum. Contrast acrophyll. beak
Sphagnum platyphyllum has a complex taxonomic history. The species was first described as a variety, S. laricinum var. platyphyllum, by Robert Braithwaite in 1875. The earliest valid publication of the epithet platyphyllum is attributed to Braithwaite, not Sextus Otto Lindberg, although Lindberg was the first to use the epithet in the same combination.
The plant uses the rhizome to store starches, proteins, and other nutrients. These nutrients become useful for the plant when new shoots must be formed or when the plant dies back for the winter. [4] If a rhizome is separated, each piece may be able to give rise to a new plant.
Replacement of a tap root system by a fibrous root is seen in onions, tuberose (Polyanthes tuberosa), grasses, etc. Fibrous roots from normal-stem nodes are seen in grasses like maize, sugarcane, bamboo, etc. Fibrous roots from nodes help in the survival of the plant and thus in vegetative reproduction, when the plant's base is damaged or cut ...
Growth from any such meristem at the tip of a root or shoot is termed primary growth and results in the lengthening of that root or shoot. Secondary growth results in widening of a root or shoot from divisions of cells in a cambium. [9] In addition to growth by cell division, a plant may grow through cell elongation. This occurs when individual ...
Accumulations of Sphagnum can store water, since both living and dead plants can hold large quantities of water inside their cells; plants may hold 16 to 26 times as much water as their dry weight, depending on the species. [4] The empty cells help retain water in drier conditions.
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .
First true leaf, leaf pair or whorl unfolded P: First leaves unfolded 12: 2 true leaves, leaf pairs or whorls unfolded 13: 3 true leaves, leaf pairs or whorls unfolded 1 . Stages continuous till ... 19: 9 or more true leaves, leaf pairs or whorls unfolded Principal growth stage 2: Formation of side shoots / tillering 21: First side shoot visible G