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Plant Structures > Plant Components, Aerial > Plant Stems > Rhizome
Plant Structures > Plant Roots > Rhizome

Preferred term

Rhizome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Rhizomes

Note

  • coord with specific Plant

Scope note

  • Root-like underground horizontal stem of plants that produces shoots above and roots below. Distinguished from true roots which don't have buds and nodes. Similar to true roots in being underground and thickened by storage deposits.

History note

  • 2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D027343

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