Columella (botany)

Columella (in plants) is an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses.[1]

The term columella is also used to refer to story 1 to story 4 (S1 - S4) cells in the root cap located apically of the quiescent centre. In fungi it refers to central vacuolated part in hyphae.


References

  1. ↑  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). "Columella". The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.
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