Caudex

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The entire shoot of a plant is called the caudex , often also the trunk of a tree, the base of the shoot , the rootstock of ferns or the like. It is a morphological term that is not clearly defined . In French it is usually used to denote thickened parts of the shoot.

The term caudex was already used in antiquity by Pliny , who meant the trunk of trees. In modern times it is used again by Leonhart Fuchs in his work De Historia Stirpium (1542) and later by Heinrich Friedrich Link (1798), who used it to designate the shoot axis and root system.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of Botany. Morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, evolution. 2nd, expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937872-94-0 , pp. 56-57.