bulliform cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0004001
Aspect
plant anatomy
Synonyms
related: motor cell
exact: célula bulliforme (Spanish)
exact: 泡状細胞 (Japanese)
Definition
An enlarged more or less thin-walled leaf pavement cell, present, with other similar cells, in longitudinal rows in leaves of monocots. [source: ISBN:0471245208]
Comment
Also called motor cell because of its presumed participation in the mechanism of rolling and unrolling of leaves. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.

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