Caulicle vs Caudicle - What's the difference?
caulicle | caudicle |
(botany) A slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
* 1858 , , The Origin of Species , 1909, Harvard Classics Edition, Volume 2,
* 1996 , Rebecca Tyson Northen, Miniature Orchids and How to Grow Them ,
* 2000 , E. Pacini, G. G. Franchi, Types of Pollen Dispersal Units in Monocots'', Karen Wilson, David Morrison (editors), ''Monocots: Systematics and Evolution ,
In botany|lang=en terms the difference between caulicle and caudicle
is that caulicle is (botany) a small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo while caudicle is (botany) a slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.As nouns the difference between caulicle and caudicle
is that caulicle is (botany) a small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo while caudicle is (botany) a slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.caulicle
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caudicle
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Alternative forms
* caudiculaNoun
(en noun)page 251,
- A pollinium when highly developed consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle , and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter.
page 86,
- The structure of the rostellum and caudicles' of the pollinia are worth noting. There are four pollinia, separated into two pairs. Each pair is attached to a long caudicle ending in a mass of sticky material or a distinct, viscid disc, except that in one species, ''I. intermedia'', the two '''caudicles''' share a viscid disc. The rostellum in all species has two projections on which the ' caudicles lie.
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- The caudicle holds the pollen grains together (Proctor and Harder 1994; Fig. 1).