Monocot Leaf Cross Section

Uniseriate upper and lower epidermal layers are composed of more or less oval cells.

Monocot leaf cross section. Base of the leaf and are parallel to each other in each lobe of the leaf. Parallel venation means veins in the leaf are arranged in a parallel fashion. Monocots have flower parts in threes or multiples of threes as shown in the flowers to the left.

Introduction monocot leaves are the leaves that appear on plants produced from seeds with single cotyledon like maize rice grass wheat etc. One celled thick upper and lower epidermal layers consist of barrel shaped. Dicots have flower parts in multiples of fours or fives like.

Monocot leaves are isobilateral i e both surfaces look the same and are structurally the same and are both exposed to the sun usually vertically oriented. Following tissues are visible in the transverse section of the material. Dicot leaves have an anastamosing network of veins arising from a.

If your plant is flowering you can tell if it is a monocot or dicot by the number of petals and other flower parts. An common example of this is the husk of corn or a blade of grass both are monocots. The leaves are usually ribboned like with parallel venation.

Monocot and dicot leaf. Isobilateral monocot leaf 2. Anatomy of dicot leaf.

An epidermal layer is present on the upper as well as lower surfaces. Anatomy of triticum leaf family graminae. Monocot leaves have bulliform cells on upper epidermis whereas in dicot leaves bulliform is absent.