Parakladium
Parakladium (also Paracladium or Parakladie ) is a term used in botany for certain forms of compound inflorescences (inflorescences): If side shoots of the inflorescence reflect the appearance and branching shape of the inflorescence of the main axis (possibly in a reduced form), this is called Lateral axes as Parakladien (or also as "repetitive instincts", as they to a certain extent repeat the behavior of the main shoot).
An inflorescence composed in this way can achieve greater complexity in that a Parakladium itself bears Parakladium again (= Parakladium 2nd order, 3rd order etc.).
literature
- Dietrich von Denffer , H. Ziegler, F. Ehrendorfer, A. Bresinsky: Strasburger - textbook of botany for universities . 32nd edition. G. Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1983. ISBN 3-437-20295-2
- F. Weberling , HO Schwantes: Plant systematics . 4th ed., E. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1981. ISBN 3-8001-2497-1