<i>Wollemia nobilis</i> (Araucariaceae): Branching, vasculature and histology in juvenile stages
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We present a preliminary description of the morphology and anatomy of contrasted axes in the recently discovered conifer Wollemia nobilis, based on clonally propagated material. The novelty of this discovery and the tree's size and rarity has led to global interest and a comprehensive and successful conservation program. Our results should serve as a model on which future studies of this tree and other members of the Araucariaceae can be based. The specimens studied are mimics of the architecture of the mature tree, with precise distinction between orthotropic (= trunk) axes, which have radial symmetry (spiral phyllotaxy) and plagiotropic (= branch) axes with dorsiventral symmetry (as a modified decussate phyllotaxy). Trunk axes develop irregular pseudowhorls of branches that originate within the terminal bud by syllepsis, their extension coincident with that of the parent axis. The two kinds of axes show considerable anatomical differences, but are still based on the common feature of a single stelar-derived trace to each leaf that becomes subdivided in the cortex, a feature of the whole family. Trunk axes include extended cortical leaf and branch traces associated with abundant sclerenchyma, but branches have short cortical leaf traces, no branch traces, and limited sclerenchyma. Reiteration is limited and largely involves the formation of basal suckers on the trunk. Branches normally remain unbranched, but can do so most often when damaged. This study thus emphasizes the phenomenon of axis differentiation in conifers, which has been little investigated anatomically, but could be very important in the identification of fossils.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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