Solenostele
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Solenostele
a type of structure characteristic of the central cylinder of the stem of ferns; a siphonostele in which the xylem is surrounded on two sides by phloem. The interior phloem is the outer boundary of the parenchymal heartwood.
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