Myristicaceous branching

• Title

  Myristicaceous branching

• Definition

  A growth form found in the plant family Myristicaceae in which the main trunk is orthotropous and with spiral phyllotaxy, and the branches are plagiotropous with distichous phyllotaxy.

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