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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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An unusual monopodial plant, having erect slender stems with a few narrow leaves, the orchid Arundina gramini folia is originally from the forests of Asia.
As a walnut tree ages, the development pattern changes from monopodial to sympodial.
The main axis of each is a monopodial unbranched rhizome that grows plagiotropically, with little internode elongation, below the soil surface.
Two plants were monopodial, while one tree possessed a 60-cm-long secondary leader that had developed about 1 m above soil level.
In some species, variations and gradations between dichotomous and monopodial growth patterns occur.
The tree with the nest was short with numerous forks and absence of its natural monopodial growth pattern, differing from other Australian pines adjacent to it.

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