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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.
The upright aerial stems exhibit a monopodial branching pattern, having one main axis of growth.
This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches.
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.
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.
Other types of branching, such the monopodial or sympodial types, are variants of this.

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