polyxylic
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polyxylic (not comparable)
- (botany) Having multiple rings of vascular bundles.
- Coordinate term: monoxylic
- 2001, David Pearson, New Organic Architecture: The Breaking Wave, page 237:
- The occurrence of polyxylic steles has been reported in Cycas, Encephalartos, Lepidozamia, and Macrozamia […] but is not always present in every species of these genera.
- 2023, Dr. Romesh Singh Bhaal, Dr. Komal, Diversity of Microbes, Algae, Fungi and Archegoniates, page 216:
- Cycas initially has a single ring of vascular bundles (monoxylic); however, one or more concentric vascular bundle rings appear outside the primary ring of bundles in the older stems showing polyxylic condition (figure 4.21).