Planteome: Term Details for "spongy mesophyll" (PO:0005647)

Accession: PO:0005647
Name: spongy mesophyll
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: mesófilo esponjoso (Spanish, exact), 海綿状葉肉 (Japanese, exact), spongy parenchyma (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Leaf mesophyll parenchyma characterized by little elongated cells, that are not closely packed and have conspicuous intercellular spaces. Source: Gramene:Pankaj_Jaiswal, ISBN:0080374913
Comment: If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.
Subset: TraitNet
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