epidermal cork cell
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0000041
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: célula de corcho epidérmica (Spanish)
- exact: célula suberí epidérmica (Spanish)
- exact: 表皮コルク細胞 (Japanese)
- Definition
- One of the two types of short cells in the epidermis of grasses and bamboos. It is usually paired with silica cell. [source: TAIR:Katica_Ilic]
- Comment
- Developmentally different from periderm cork cell (i.e., phellem), produced by cork cambium. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025).
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