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SINCE the days of Hegelmaier1 there has been little or no work on the embryology and seed structure of Wolffia. Recently2, I pointed out the probability of a cellular endosperm in this genus. Later, the occurrence of a cellular endosperm was also confirmed in Lemna paucicostata 3, which contradicts Lawalrée's4 report of a helobial endosperm in L. minor.
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Hegelmaier, F., “Die Lemnaceen” (Leipzig, 1868).
Maheshwari, S. C., Phytomorph., 4, 355 (1954).
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Lawalrée, A., La Cellule, 54, 305 (1952).
Lawalrée, A., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, 71, 27 (1945).
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MAHESHWARI, S. Endosperm and Seed of Wolffia . Nature 178, 925–926 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178925b0
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