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Detail of a wheat embryo (a monocot):

Legend:

1  coleoptile
2  plumule

English name: Wheat
Scientific name: Triticum aestivum
Familia: Gramineae
Classis: Monocotyledonas
Phylum: Angiospermae
Regnum: Plantae

The plumula consists of leaflets that protect the apical meristem