awn
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025349
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: seta
- related: setae
- exact: arista
- exact: arista (Spanish)
- exact: 芒 (Japanese)
- broad: bristle
- Definition
- A cardinal organ part that is a slender, more or less straight and stiff, fine-pointed, terminal or subterminal appendage of a glume, lemma, or palea. [source: FNA:glossary]
- Comment
- Found in a spikelet of Poaceae. Sometimes the awn is a continuation of the bearing structure's central primary vein.
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