Claim · model-written summary
Setchellanthus caeruleus has wide-helix tracheary elements in its leaves.
- Taxon
- Setchellanthus caeruleusSetchellanthus caeruleust0
- Organ / stage
- leavese2
- Outcome
- wide‐helix tracheary elementse2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Verbatim
t0“Setchellanthus caeruleus”
e2“the presence of wide‐helix tracheary elements in leaves”
Title
Vegetative anatomy and relationships of Setchellanthus caeruleus (Setchellanthaceae)
Sherwin Carlquist; Regis B. Miller Taxon 1999. doi:10.2307/1224434
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Setchellanthus caeruleus cannot be included within any of the glucosinolate-producing plant families.
- Observation Setchellanthus caeruleus wood and vegetative tissues show features unknown in the glucosinolate-producing families: abundant vasicentric tracheids, abaxial axial parenchyma, and only short uniseriate rays.
- Observation No myrosin cells were observed in Setchellanthus caeruleus.
- Observation On the basis of present information, Setchellanthus caeruleus appears closest to the glucosinolate-producing families.
- Observation The wood of Capparaceae offers many similarities to the wood of Setchellanthus caeruleus.
- Observation Wood offers the greatest number of phyletically significant features in Setchellanthus caeruleus.
- Observation The wood of Helianthemum (Cistaceae) is even more like that of Setchellanthus caeruleus than that of Capparaceae.