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Nearly 100 years ago, Engler described the unusual root morphology of plants in the family Proteaceae growing in the Leipzig Botanic Gardens. They had extensively branched roots covered with long, densely grouped absorption hairs. It wasn't until 1960 that Purnell coined the term “proteoid root
Watt et al. (Fri,) studied this question.