During sheath maturation, the elongate phytoliths in the base part demonstrated a decreasing trend, but in the middle and upper parts, it showed an increasing trend and reached the highest occurrence at culm stage.
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Silicon Deposition and Phytolith Morphological Variation in Culm Sheaths of <i>Dendrocalamus brandisii</i> at Different Growth Stages.
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In maturing sheaths, the proportion of blocky phytoliths exhibited an increasing trend attaining >10% at culm and shedding stages.