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It has long been known that, in certain families where there is little secondary growth, some species produce a significant amount of secondary tissue (e.g. Asteraceae; Carlquist 1966). This suggests that species in these families have re-evolved secondary growth after its loss. CARLQUIST’S identification of paedomorphosis in the secondary xylem is based on these types of observations (Carlquist 1962).
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Schweingruber, F., Börner, A., Schulze, ED. (2013). Secondary Woodiness and Paedomorphosis. In: Atlas of Stem Anatomy in Herbs, Shrubs and Trees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20435-7_6
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