branch
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025073
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related:
- narrow: branchlet
- narrow: higher order axis
- narrow: secondary axis
- narrow: tertiary axis
- narrow: twig
- exact: ramificación (Spanish)
- exact: shoot axis branch
- exact: 枝 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A shoot axis (PO:00025029) that develops from an axillary bud meristem (PO:0000232) or from equal divisions of a meristematic apical cell (PO:0030007). [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- In vascular plants, branches arise from an axillary bud meristem (PO:0000232) and from divisions of the meristematic apical cell (PO:0030007) in non-vascular plants.
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