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(1) Corpuscle   [ Botany - Anathomy ]

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Synonyms: Corpusculum 
Adjective: Corpuscular 
     
  A corpuscle or corpusculum is any small mass or body  
     
[From: Latin. corpusculum = little body (diminutive of L. corpus = Body)]

Used as a general term in anatomical nomenclature to designate certain small discrete masses of specialized tissue, or small organs.
     
(2) Corpusculum  [ Botany -Anathomy ]
 
Plural: Corpuscula

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  The central part of a pollinarium, characteristic of the families Orchidaceae, Apocynaceae-Asclepiadaceae and Passifloraceae .  
     

The corpusculum  is the central part of a pollinarium (a specialized reproductive structure found in the flowers of Asclepiadaceae and Passifloraceae). A usually dark, basally cleft, tubular body above the stigmatic chamber, It is the clip connecting the thin arms (Translators) that are attached to the pollen mass (Pollinia)
 

     

 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

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  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
   

 

 

 

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