Sessility (botany) subsessile, which is not completely sessile. Sessility (botany) In botany, sessility (meaning "sitting", used in the sense of "resting on the surface") is a characteristic of plant parts that have no stalk. Flowers or leaves are borne directly from the stem or peduncle, and thus lack a petiole or pedicel. The leaves of most monocotyledons lack petioles. The term sessility is also used in mycology to describe a fungal fruit body that is attached to or seated directly on the surface of the substrate, lacking a supporting stipe or pedicel. Other examples of sessile flowers include Achyranthus, Saffron, etc. Plant
Annals of Botany Annals of Botany Annals of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, founded in 1887, that publishes research articles, brief communications, and reviews in all areas of botany. The journal is supported and managed by Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity, and published through Oxford University Press. According to the 2011 "Journal Citation Reports" it has an impact factor of 4.041, in 2016 ranking 22nd out of 211 in the category Plant Sciences. There was an earlier periodical "Annals of Botany" edited by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (Charles Konig) and John Sims which started in 1804 and published