Phytomere vs. Phytomer
Phytomerenoun
(botany) A segment of the shoot of a grass; it includes the internode and leaf together with parts of the upper and lower nodes.
Phytomernoun
(botany) An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
Phytomernoun
An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
Phytomer
Phytomers are functional units of a plant, continually produced by root and shoot meristems throughout a plant's vegetative life-cycle.. Increases in a phytomer can be measured using the rate of phyllochron (rate of appearance of leaves on a shoot).
