Claim · model-written summary
Tuft hair occurs on the adaxial leaf surfaces of O. affinis, O. corymbosa and O. diffusa.
- Taxon
- O. affinis, O. corymbosa, and O. diffusa
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Oldenlandia corymbosa
Oldenlandia affinis
Scleromitrion diffusume1 - Outcome
- Tuft haire1
- Qualifier
- adaxial leaf surfacese1
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Verbatim
e1“Tuft hair is absent in O. herbacea but occurred on the adaxial leaf surfaces of O. affinis, O. corymbosa, and O. diffusa”
Title
Chimezie Ekeke; Chinedum Alozie Oagzie; Josephine Agogbua Scientia Africana 2021. doi:10.4314/sa.v20i2.10
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Epidermal cells of Oldenlandia are pentagonal to polygonal with straight, curved or wavy anticlinal walls.
- Observation Oldenlandia has paracytic stomata.
- Observation All Oldenlandia species have dorsiventral leaves with leaf vein vascular bundles embedded in the spongy mesophyll.
- Observation Midrib vascular bundles of Oldenlandia form an arc enclosed by parenchymatous endodermal cells.
- Observation O. herabcea is amphistomatic, while the other species are hypostomatic.
- Observation Raphide bundles occur only in the lamina of O. corymbosa.
- Observation Tuft hair is absent in O. herbacea.
- Observation The stem of O. diffusa is terete, while the other species have a quadrangular stem.
- Observation Papillae occur on the adaxial epidermis of O. affinis and O. corymbosa.
- Observation The stem pith thickness/cortical thickness ratio varied among the Oldenlandia species.