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The thick-walled lignified, pitted cells found in the stem and leaf ofAvicennia may be placed under the category of “Brachysclereids” or “stone-cells” of Tschrich (1885) and Foster (1949). These are transformed parenchyma cells in the stem, a hypodermal or mesophyll cell in the petiole and lamina of the leaf. They are formed by the “secondary sclerosis” of these parenchyma cells.
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Communicated by Prof. L. Narayana Rao,f.a.sc.
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Malaviya, M. On the distribution, structure and ontogeny of stone-cells inAvicennia officinalis Linn.. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 58, 45–50 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03052071
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