- a variation of hypodermis.
hypoderm
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Leaves binate, sometimes ternate, from 15 to 30 cm. long, rigid, erect; hypoderm of uniform thick-walled cells; resin-ducts of remarkable size, septal, or not quite touching the endoderm and technically external.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The leaf-section is notable for the large amount of hypoderm and for the presence of both thick and thin outer walls of the endoderm-cells, both forms appearing in the same leaf.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Leaves prevalently ternate but sometimes in fascicles of 4 or 5, from 15 to 30 cm. long, slender and gracefully drooping; resin-ducts medial or with an occasional internal duct, hypoderm weak, of uniform thin-walled cells.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Leaves in fascicles of 3, from 20 to 30 cm. long; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm multiform.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Such partitions are sometimes met in other species, P. Pringlei or P. canariensis, where the hypoderm is abundant.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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