monostele

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English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ stele.

Noun

monostele (plural monosteles)

  1. Synonym of protostele
    • 1906, Sir Arthur George Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 66:
      Again, in ectophloic medullated monosteles the presence of an internal endodermis between xylem and central parenchyma is rare ; on the other hand when an amphiphloic condition obtains, an endodermis often cuts off the internal phloem from the central parenchyma.
    • 1926, F.O. Bower, The ferns (filicales), page 102:
      This is most readily done by reference to the sporeling: for there the axis is found to be traversed by a coherent monostele: and it is to the disintegration of this, together with the formation of commissural connections, that the complex structure of the adult is due.
    • 1949, University of Toronto Studies: Biological series - Issues 1-10, page 103:
      This condition be conceived to be derived by repeated division of the monostele.
    • 2014, William Louis Stern, Mary Gregory, David F. Cutler, Anatomy of the Monocotyledons Volume X: Orchidaceae, →ISBN:
      'Monosteles' comprising a ring of alternating xylem and phloem elements surrounding parenchymatous pith; 'monosteles' occurring in most genera...