cystolith
A stalked structure growing from a cell wall into the cell cavity, encrusted with calcium carbonate. A mass of calcium carbonate concretion, occasionally silica, formed on ingrowths of modified epidermal cell walls in some plants, esp. of the Acanthaceae family. Selected cystolith links:
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