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Phylloclade
Flattened, photosynthesizing plant shoot / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Cladophyll.
Phylloclades and cladodes are flattened, photosynthetic shoots, which are usually considered to be modified branches. The two terms are used either differently or interchangeably by different authors. Phyllocladus, a genus of conifer, is named after these structures. Phylloclades/cladodes have been identified in fossils dating from as early as the Permian.[1]
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