Anatomical examination of the apomictic reproductive structures produced on the tips of leaves in the bog orchid, Malaxis paludosa, has revealed these structures to be an embryo-like structure enclosed in a sterile jacket of cells. It is proposed that these reproductive structures be classified as foliar embryos.
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Roy L. Taylor (1967) studied this question.
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