a shoot system (PO:shoot system) that has only weak secondary growth (GO:secondary growth) or is stiffened by sclerification, has an excurrently branched stem lacking (TOP:monopodial-excurrent stem) and supports a vertically extensive, sometimes tree-sized crown

shoot bambusoid

http://top-thesaurus.org/trait#Thesaurustrait

Bambusoid

trait:TOP141

Bambusoid

unitless (category)

Pérez-Harguindeguy N., Díaz S., Garnier E., Lavorel S., Poorter H., Jaureguiberry P., Bret-Harte M. S., Cornwell W. K., Craine J. M., Gurvich D. E., Urcelay C., Veneklaas E. J., Reich P. B., Poorter L., Wright I. J., Ray P., Enrico L., Pausas J. G., de Vos A. C., Buchmann N., Funes G., Quétier F., Hodgson J. G., Thompson K., Morgan H. D., ter Steege H., van der Heijden M. G. A., Sack L., Blonder B., Poschlod P., Vaieretti M. V., Conti G., Staver A. C., Aquino S., Cornelissen J. H. C. (2013) New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany 61, 167_234 (adapted)

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0080117

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0009006

stable

http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing