A stele consisting of a core of pith surrounded by concentric layers of xylem and phloem.
Example sentencesExamples
The thick-walled cells in the center of the core are sometimes considered to be pith, in which case the vascular arrangement would actually be a siphonostele.
Other lycophytes have a siphonostele, with a central region of generalized tissue within a cylinder of vascular tissue.
Use the three-dimensional diagram to understand how a leaf gap relates to the vascular cylinder of a siphonostele.
In anatomical cross section, the stem of Lepidodendron displays an exarch siphonostele surrounded by secondary xylem in ranks.
The node cross section of Equisetum looks quite different: the siphonostele is complete and leaf traces emerge from the solid vascular cylinder only at these locations.
Definition of siphonostele in US English:
siphonostele
nounsīˈfänəˌstēl
Botany
A stele consisting of a core of pith surrounded by concentric layers of xylem and phloem.
Example sentencesExamples
Other lycophytes have a siphonostele, with a central region of generalized tissue within a cylinder of vascular tissue.
The thick-walled cells in the center of the core are sometimes considered to be pith, in which case the vascular arrangement would actually be a siphonostele.
In anatomical cross section, the stem of Lepidodendron displays an exarch siphonostele surrounded by secondary xylem in ranks.
The node cross section of Equisetum looks quite different: the siphonostele is complete and leaf traces emerge from the solid vascular cylinder only at these locations.
Use the three-dimensional diagram to understand how a leaf gap relates to the vascular cylinder of a siphonostele.