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Intercalary Growth

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Intercalary Growth 

a lengthwise growth in plants as a result of cell division in the formative tissue (meristem), located below the top of the organ—for example, in the internodes of the stalks of grasses and at the base of the leaves.



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The basal part of the tegmen undergoes intercalary growth and vascularization that comes from the chalaza (Figure 4A), characterizing the formation of an endopachychalaza.
Primitive distal dichotomy is still found in the leaves of many living ferns but is absent from the leaves of angiosperms because of the early arrest of apical growth, the major part of the leaf lamina resulting from intercalary growth.
 
 
 
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