Planteome: Term Details for "xylem vessel member" (PO:0002003)

Accession: PO:0002003
Name: xylem vessel member
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: miembro de vaso (Spanish, exact), vessel element (exact), vessel member (exact), vessel segment (exact), 木質部道管状要素 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A tracheary element (PO:0000290) that is part of a xylem vessel (PO:0025417) and has as parts perforation plates. Source: ISBN:0471245208
Comment: Commonly thick walled, with pointed ends and bordered pits that have lenticular to slit-like apertures. If both libriform fibers (PO:0004520) and fiber tracheids are present, the libriform fibers usually have thicker walls. Fiber tracheids have bordered pits with smaller pit cavities than the vessel members (PO:0002003) or tracheids (PO:0000301) of the same wood and a distinct pit cavity leading from the pit cavity to the cell lumen through the thick cell wall.
Subset: CL; TraitNet
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subject	relation	object
xylem vessel member	is_a	tracheary element (PO:0000290)
xylem vessel member	BFO:0000050	xylem vessel (PO:0025417)

subject	relation	object
primary xylem vessel member (PO:0025448)	is_a	xylem vessel member
secondary xylem vessel member (PO:0025449)	is_a	xylem vessel member