Planteome: Term Details for "spongy mesophyll cell" (PO:0006205)

Accession: PO:0006205
Name: spongy mesophyll cell
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: célula del mesófilo esponjoso (Spanish, exact), 海綿状葉肉細胞 (Japanese, exact), spongy parenchyma cell (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Irregularly-shaped, chlorenchymatous cell, separated by large air spaces. Source: Gramene:Pankaj_Jaiswal
Comment: Usually found in the abaxial/lower part of the leaf mesophyll as in a dorsiventral leaf, but between two palisade parenchyma layers in an isobilateral leaf. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.
Subset: CL; TraitNet
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