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Cairns, S. D., Baron-Szabo, R., Budd, A.F., Lathuilière, B., Roniewicz, E., Stolarski, J., and Johnson, K.G. (eds.), 2010. Corallosphere, world wide web site at http://corallosphere.org, last visited on 07 Feb 2012.
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axial growth

Summary

growth that has proceeded in a single direction at any one time (i.e. a growth axis), rather than in many simultaneous directions. Axial growth gives rise to columnar and branching colony forms. There are three kinds of growth axes: monocentric, polycentric and ramose. See Monocentric growth axis, Polycentric growth axis and Ramose growth axis.

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This version was contributed by Ken Johnson on 22-Apr-2008 14:35.

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