Claim · model-written summary
Submerged leaves of Nymphaea gardneriana have a smaller and thinner leaf blade.
- Taxon
- Nymphaea gardneriana
Nymphaea gardnerianae0 - Organ / stage
- fully submerged leavese0
- Outcome
- leaf bladee1
- Direction
- smaller and thinnere1
Verbatim
e0“Nymphaea gardneriana can inhabit completely different environments, featuring fully submerged leaves in rivers and floating leaves in lakes”
e1“Submerged plants show reddish leaves with a smaller and thinner leaf blade and different epidermal thickening in the midrib”
Title
G. Catian; E. Scremin-Dias The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 2015. doi:10.3159/torrey-d-14-00038.1
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Submerged plants have reddish leaves.
- Observation Submerged leaves show different epidermal thickening in the midrib.
- Observation Submerged leaves have a smaller stomatal density.
- Observation Submerged leaves have a greater density of hydropotes, present on both surfaces.
- Observation Submerged leaves present a regular chlorenchyma.
- Observation Submerged leaves have one to two vascular bundles in the midrib.
- Observation Floating leaves are green with thin-walled epidermal cells.
- Observation In floating leaves hydropotes are found exclusively on the abaxial surface.
- Observation Floating leaves show a typical palisade chlorenchyma.
- Observation Floating leaves have two vascular bundles in the midrib.
