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. 2020 Jan 6;125(4):581–597. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz212

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

Microfossil techniques for the investigation of vegetatively propagated crops. (A) Photomicrograph of starch granule of Disocorea hispida indicating diagnostic elements: h = hilum, l = lamellae (modern reference sample). (B) Photomicrograph of volcaniform phytolith of an AAw banana (Musa sp.; modern reference sample from Ngezi Forest, Pemba). (C) Photomicrograph of a transverse section through a sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) stem fragment from a 200- to 300-year-old domestic context at Kuk Swamp (Lewis et al., 2016: fig. 3d).