cambium
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0005597
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: cambium (Spanish)
- exact: 形成層 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A lateral meristem (PO:0020145) that has as part a single layer of cambial initial cells (PO:0000295) and their derivatives, arranged orderly in radial files. [source: ISBN:047125208]
- Comment
- This term is applied to only two types of meristems: vascular cambium (PO:0005598) and cork cambium/phellogen (PO:0005599).
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