colletor
English
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Noun
[edit]colletor (plural colletors)
- (botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
- Colletors are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.
References
[edit]- A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (Macmillan, 1898), p.98 (picture) [1]