Polyxylic

Quick meaning: Polyxylic is an adjective meaning (botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles.

Meaning

(botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles.

Example Sentences

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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