astelic
adjEtymology From a- + stele + -ic.
- We see, therefore, that the plants in this Order, although generally astelic, sometimes aggregate all the vascular bundles present in certain of their members into so many steles […]1901, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany. 2d Series, page 298:
- The astelic type of Van Tieghem does not result from the separation of the constituent epicotyledonary stele into its constituent bundles, for in the young so-called astelic axis there are no bundles present at all, but a collateral stelar tube […]1999, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Outlines Of Botany, page 181: