In paleobotany, describing a type of plant vascular system where the xylem is arranged in a central cylinder with branches extending outward.
From Greek 'klados' (branch) + 'siphon' (tube, vessel). A technical term from 19th-century plant anatomy describing water-conducting tissue arrangements.
Ancient plants invented plumbing millions of years before humans—cladosiphonic systems show how early plants solved the problem of pumping water from roots to leaves efficiently.
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