short cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0004718
Aspect
plant anatomy
Synonyms
exact: célula corta (Spanish)
exact: 短細胞 (Japanese)
Definition
An isodiametric leaf pavement cell. [source: POC:curators]
Comment
In the leaf epidermis of Poaceae and Joinvilleaceae, long cells and short cells often alternate in longitudinal rows. 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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