| label |
name |
description |
| bw |
Buttress root |
Upper lateral root of trees. The thickend upper side of the root strengthens the basal part of the trunk buttress-like ensuring more stability
|
| f |
questionable |
|
| k |
Adhesive root |
Short aerial root attached to the substrate, trunk or wall without penetrating it
|
| o |
Rootless |
Lack of any typical roots
|
| p |
Pleiocorm |
System of compact, perennial shoots occuring at the proximal end of the persistent primary root. The innovation buds are situated in the axils of basal leaves. The connections between the shoots and the primary root are persistent
|
| r |
Primary storage root |
Thickened primary root including the thickened hypocotyl and epicotyl, acting as a storage function
|
| sw |
Secondary storage root |
Partly thickened adventitious or lateral root acting as storage. Contrary to root tubers it has not lost primary root functions, such as absorption and anchoring
|
| wk |
Root tuber |
Thickened, not ramified adventitious root, formed by an innovation bud, which primarily acts as storage but rarely as absorption
|
| ws |
Root shoot |
Adventitiously-rooted shoot growing from a main or lateral root. It is either leafless or has cataphyllary leaves during growth within the soil
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