| Range |
5-1000 stomata/mm^2
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| Organism |
Plants |
| Reference |
Alistair M. Hetherington1 F. Ian Woodward. The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature. 2003 Aug 21 424(6951):901-8. p. 902 right column, bottom paragraphPubMed ID12931178
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| Primary Source |
Willmer, C. & Fricker, M. Stomata 2nd edn (Chapman & Hall, London, 1996). |
| Comments |
Depending on the species and the environmental
conditions stomata range in size from about 10 to 80µm in length (BNID 101757)
and occur at densities between 5 and 1,000mm^2 of epidermis
(primary source and Fig. 3a). In spite of this wide variability there is a strong and general
relationship between density and size (Fig. 3a) for different plant groups (grasses and non-grasses), fossil leaves and for different
stomatal distributions on either one or both leaf surfaces. |
| Entered by |
Ben Marks |
| ID |
101758 |