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Image Title: Enlarged area of cleared of palo verde (Cercidium floridum)
Image Credit: Nels R. Lersten, Iowa State University
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Copyright held by: Nels R. Lersten, BSA
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Enlarged area of cleared of palo verde (Cercidium floridum). Empty cells (veinlet idioblasts), each interconnected by a perforation platelike gap, are unique to Cercidium, occurring mostly in pairs or clusters abutting terminal veins.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Two foliar idioblasts of taxonomic significance in Cercidium and Parkinsonia (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae)

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