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What does monopodial mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
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The main axis of each is a monopodial unbranched rhizome that grows plagiotropically, with little internode elongation, below the soil surface.
This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches.
As a walnut tree ages, the development pattern changes from monopodial to sympodial.
Rhynia is also a vascular plant, with somewhat monopodial branching to a height of about 18 cm.
Other types of branching, such the monopodial or sympodial types, are variants of this.
In some species, variations and gradations between dichotomous and monopodial growth patterns occur.

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