In a number of species of Artocarpus J.R. & G. Forster (Moraceae) laticifers were not only observed as radial tubes, enclosed in the ray tissue, but also as axial tubes, enclosed in the fibre tissue. Both types of latex tubes are connected and considered as one branched laticiferous system. A detailed description of the individual latex tubes and the whole system, based on light microscopic and scanning electron microscopic observation, is presented.

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Topper, S. M. C., & Koek-Noorman, J. (1980). The occurrence of axial latex tubes in the secondary xylem of some species of Artocarpus J. R. & G. Forster (Moraceae). Mededelingen van het Botanisch Museum en Herbarium van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, 487(1), 113–119.