Up Ordinary epidermis Guard cells Thick cuticle Thicker cuticle Thin cuticle Parasitic plant Petal epidermis Sclerified epidermis Papillose epidermis Sculptured cuticle Elaborate cuticle Cuticular horns Radial walls Cuticle proper No epidermis Epidermal peels Cycad peel Paradermal Typical stoma Sunken stoma Stomatal orientation 1 Unusual orientation 2 Artifact Stomata and fibers Stomatal crypts Crypts, mag. Crypt margin Non-crypt Water lily Stomatal channels Groove, hi mag Subsidiary cells Ledges Papillae Trichome Uniseriate hair Peltate hair, mag Peltate, lo mag Branched hairs Trichome base Lithocyst, Ficus Lithocysts, hemp Bulliform cells Grass epidermis Multiple epi Uniseriate? Peperomia
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Fig.
10.2-13. Transverse section of yucca leaf (Yucca).
These epidermis cells have a very thick deposit of cutin,
and it even penetrated into the radial walls (the walls that run from
the inner side of the cell to the outer side), even extending down to the inner
wall. The two arrows indicate pale lines in the cuticle: such lines usually mean
that the cells are actually cuboidal, and that the outer wall and the outer
parts of the radial walls have thickened and are now encrusted with cutin.
(Alternatively, the cells could be rounded, with so much cutin that it has
filled in all the valleys between cells; but when that happens, there are no
pale lines.)
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