laticostate

comparative more laticostate · superlative most laticostate

1. especiallyrarebiologyHaving broad ribs.

   However, plants from Europe have a laticostate seed surface, while those from Asia are observed to have two types of seed coats (laticostate and tenuicostate), […]

   2009, S. B. Gontcharova, A. A. Gontcharov, V. V. Yakubov, K. Kondo, “Seed surface morphology in some representatives of the genus Rhodiola sect. Rhodiola (Crassulaceae) in the Russian Far East”, in Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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   Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]

   2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa

   Populations in Torovicë and at the Fangul-pass certainly belong to the nominate form, although a part of the specimens in Torovicë are extremely widely-spaced (laticostate), and some […]

   , Zoltán Fehér, Z. Erőss, A. Varga, Contributions to the knowledge of the Albanian Cochlostoma fauna