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VERY little information is available, in the literature, on the embryo of coconut. The family Palmæ, to which the genus Cocos belongs, has not been studied embryologically1.
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Johansen, D. A., “Plant Embryology”, 252 (Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica Co., 1950).
For example, Sampson, H. C., “The Coconut Palm”, 78 and 79 and Plates XX A and B (London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd., 1923).
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SELVARATNAM, E. Embryo of the Coconut. Nature 169, 714–715 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169714b0
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