Columella (botany)
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Columella (in plants) is an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses.[1] In fungi it refers to a centrally vacuolated part of a hypha, bearing spores. The word finds analogous usage in myxomycetes.
The term columella is also used to refer to story 1 to story 4 (S1 – S4) cells in the root cap, located apically of the quiescent centre.
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- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). . . Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.
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