Monocotyledonous Stem

The monocotyledonous stem differs from the dicot stem in several characteristic ways. Its main features are:

• a sclerenchymatous hypodermis lying below the epidermis;
• a large number of scattered vascular bundles, each surrounded by a sclerenchymatous bundle sheath; and
• a large, conspicuous parenchymatous ground tissue, since the ground tissue is not differentiated into cortex, endodermis and pith as in the dicot stem. …