Pachycaulie

In botany, pachycaulia is the development of thick, unbranched (or only slightly) branched trunks with soft wood . Plants with pachycaulene trunks often appear in arid areas where the soil hinders the formation of voluminous underground storage organs.

Pachycaulie is a typical feature of the cycads (Cycadaceae). It is also widespread in the cucurbitaceae , Apocynaceae , Dioscoreaceae , Icacinaceae , Passifloraceae and Vitaceae , so it often occurs in clans that are otherwise largely trailing.

supporting documents

Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of botany. The terms in their historical context. 2nd, expanded edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8274-1398-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Kocyan, Li-Bing Zhang, Hanno Schaefer, Susanne S. Renner: A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character evolution and classification . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 44, August 2007, pp. 553-577. doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2006.12.022 , full text (PDF; 381 kB)

[1] Alexander Kocyan, Li-Bing Zhang, Hanno Schaefer, Susanne S. Renner: A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character evolution and classification . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 44, August 2007, pp. 553-577. doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2006.12.022 , full text (PDF; 381 kB)