This article describes the anatomy of colleters in the Spermacoceae tribe of the family Rubiaceae in detail. The presence of underground colleters in Galianthe grandifolia is confirmed and extended to other species of the ...

Premise of research: The primary goal of this study is to describe the colleters on vegetative and reproductive organs in the Spermacoceae tribe and to characterize their morphoanatomy, their distribution, and some functional ...

Colleters are secretory structures that produce and release mucilage or a mucilage-resin mixture protecting meristems and young structures against desiccation, herbivores, and pathogens. The secretions may vary in colleters ...

The genus Hymenaea is characterized by a great diversity of secretory structures, but there are no reports of colleters yet. The objectives of this study are to report the occurrence and describe the origin and structure ...

The genus Hymenaea is characterized by a great diversity of secretory structures, but there are no reports of colleters yet. The objectives of this study are to report the occurrence and describe the origin and structure ...

The genus Hymenaea is characterized by a great diversity of secretory structures, but there are no reports of colleters yet. The objectives of this study are to report the occurrence and describe the origin and structure ...