Vascular bundles are present throughout the
monocot stem, although concentrated towards the outside. This differs from the
monocot root that has a ring of
vascular bundles and often none in the center.
Full article >>>vascular bundles: arrangements of the
xylem and
phloem in
vascular plants.
vascular plants:
plants that contain specialized
tissues to
transport fluids.
vascular plants with protected seeds:
angiosperms; the most developed and complex
vascular plants.
Full article >>>Monocot stems have scattered
vascular bundles.
Dicot stems have their
vascular bundles in a ring arrangement.
Monocot stems have most of their
vascular bundles near the outside edge of the
stem.
Full article >>>Stem vascular arrangement -- Vascular
tissue occurs in
long strands called
vascular bundles. These bundles are arranged within the
stem of
dicots to form a cylinder, appearing as a ring of spots when you cut across the
stem.
Full article >>>pith ray The region or
tissue located between
vascular bundles in a
stem and connecting the
pith and
cortex; also termed interfascicular region or
medullary ray.
pith Parenchymal
tissue in the center of a
stem located interior to the
vascular bundles.
Full article >>>central cylinder of united
vascular bundles in the
roots and stems of
dicotyledonous
seed plants
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General
Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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cotyledons in their seeds
netted venation in their leaves
petals and
sepals in 4s, 5s, or some multiple thereof
vascular bundles in the
stem arranged in a radial pattern like spokes of a wheel.
Full article >>>The core of the central vascular cylinder of
monocot roots, consisting of
parenchyma cells, which are ringed by vascular
tissue;
ground tissue interior to
vascular bundles in
dicot stems.
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