What is it about?
Most plants have normal broad leaves that capture light to fix carbon dioxide into starch. However a few plant groups have dispensed with traditional leaves and form specialised foliage that helps them to function efficiently on soils that are poor in nutrients and often occur in very arid environments.
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Why is it important?
The study of the structure of the foliage of the casuarinas helps us understand how some plants can function in adverse environments and can be useful in revegetating arid areas that have been degraded by over exploitation and can produce useful timber for building or fuel in arid areas of the world.
Perspectives
The study bring together the importance of the internal structure of plants and their function that has been neglected in recent decades.
philip ladd
Murdoch University
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This page is a summary of: The foliar change from seedlings to adults in Allocasuarina
(Casuarinaceae): the evolutionary and ecological aspects of leaf reduction, xeromorphy and scleromorphy, Feddes Repertorium, October 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/fedr.201800004.
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