Leptoid

Leptoid

A leptoid are elongated food-conducting cells in some mosses. They are surrounded by strands of hydroids. They have some structural and developmental similarities to the sieve elements of seedless vascular plants. At maturity they have inclined cell walls with smallm pores with degenerate nuclei. the conduction cells of mosses are Leptoids and hydroids appear similar to those of fossil protracheophytes because of this they may represent a intermediate stage in the evolution of vascular plants.

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