Definition of Dictyostele

1. Noun. (botany) A type of siphonostele, in which the vascular tissue in the stem forms a central cylinder around a pith, but with closely spaced leaf gaps. ¹

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Definition of Dictyostele

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dictyostele

dictyates
dictynid spider
dictynid spiders
dictyocaulus
dictyocaulus infections
dictyochophyte
dictyochophytes
dictyodendrin
dictyogen
dictyogens
dictyoma
dictyopteran
dictyopterous insect
dictyosome
dictyosomes
dictyostele (current term)
dictyosteles
dictyostelic
dictyostelid
dictyostelids
dictyosteliida
dictyotene
dicumarol
dicumarol resistance
dicumarols
dicy
dicyanamide
dicyanide
dicyanides
dicyano

Literary usage of Dictyostele

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"He fully recognized the important part which the leaf traces play in the building up of the dictyostele of the stem, but he did not apparently recognize ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"A similar vascular system, consisting of a cylindrical dictyostele, with normally a single central strand, is found also in the mature axis of ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... at length a network of strands, or the dictyostele, is formed." The course of development ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... with overlapping being called a dictyostele. The splitting up of the v into separate strands does not depend wholly upon tb ..."

5. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1908)
"... and it is then shewn how a further advance might give rise to the different types of radial and dorsiventral dictyostele found in the Polypodiaceae. ..."

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