Monocotyledons
- It only has one seed leaf.
- New roots arise from aborted radicles.
- The first shoot that emerges from monocot plants is epicotyl, this is where the first leaves and shoots emerge.
- Monocots have a distinctive arrangement of vascular tissue known as an atactostele in which the vascular tissue is scattered rather than arranged in concentric rings.
Examples:
corn
wheat
ginger
banana
sugarcane
Dicotyledons
- They have two seed leaves.
- Their roots grow from apical meristem and the radicle.
- Many dicots have epigeal emergence. This is where the hypocotyl elongates and becomes arched in the soil.
- In dicots, the hypocotyl appears to be the base under the spent withered cotyledons, and the shoot just above that is the epicotyl.
Examples:
figs
celery
beans
pease
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