leaf aerenchyma
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0006215
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: aerénquima de la hoja (Spanish)
- exact: 葉通気組織 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A portion of parenchyma tissue containing particularly large intercellular spaces in the leaf mesophyll. [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, POC:Ramona_Walls]
- Comment
- 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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External References
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