Excerpt from A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings, Vol. 2 of 2
Primary root slender, with comparatively strong adventitious lateral roots near the upper end at a very early stage.
Hypocotyl very short or undeveloped, or suddenly tapered to a blunt point and giving off adventitious roots.
Cotyledons very small, rotund, obtuse, very shortly petiolate, glabrous, light green, with a slender midrib but no other discernible venation; lamina 1 mm. In diameter petiole dilated and slightly connate at the base, about °5 mm. Long above the connate part.
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