What does polyxylic mean?
Polyxylic means (botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles..
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(botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles..
The occurrence of polyxylic steles has been reported in Cycas, Encephalartos, Lepidozamia, and Macrozamia […] but is not always present in every species of these genera.
Cycas initially has a single ring of vascular bundles (monoxylic); however, one or more concentric vascular bundle rings appear outside the primary ring of bundles in the older stems showing polyxylic condition (figure 4.21).
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Polyxylic means (botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles..
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The occurrence of polyxylic steles has been reported in Cycas, Encephalartos, Lepidozamia, and Macrozamia […] but is not always present in every species of these genera.
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