Claim · model-written summary
Maundia has iterative sympodial growth with five tubular cataphylls per shoot and two or three linear foliage leaves.
- Outcome
- iterative sympodial growth with all shoots bearing five tubular cataphyllse0
MaundiaVerbatim
e0“Maundia has an iterative sympodial growth with all shoots bearing five tubular cataphylls splitting longitudinally and simulating open sheaths at maturity and two (or three) linear foliage leaves without a conspicuous basal sheath”
Title
Anna G. Platonova; Margarita V. Remizowa; Barbara G. Briggs; et al. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2016. doi:10.1111/boj.12478
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation The morphology of Maundia distinguishes Maundiaceae from all other Alismatales.
- Observation The rhizome of Maundia has collateral bundles of normal orientation and no peripheral bundles.
- Observation The cataphylls of Maundia have a series of normally oriented bundles.
- Observation Maundia foliage leaves have peripheral bundles with xylem facing outwards, so abaxial peripheral bundles are inverted.
- Association Leaves and peduncles of Maundia are strongly similar in anatomy, related to their shared assimilatory function.
- Mechanism Leaf venation in thick aquatic and helophyte Alismatales leaves is proposed to reduce transport distances between veins and photosynthetic cells.
- Observation The orientation patterns of peripheral bundles are unstable in large Alismatales clades.
- Recommendation Slender peripheral bundles cannot be used to identify unifacial leaves.
- Observation Some anatomical characters show homoplastic similarities between Maundiaceae and Aponogetonaceae.