stolons Stems that grow along the surface of the ground; a method of plant vegetaive propagation.
stolon. A trailing aboveground stem or shoot, often rooting at the nodes and forming new plants.
stolon
A long slender stem running along the surface of the ground, arising from the axil of a leaf, whose function is to enable rapid vegetative propagation in an area. Runners are found, for example, in strawberries and creeping buttercup.
stolon A rootlike extension of the body wall giving rise to buds that may develop into new zooids, thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids remain united by the stolon.
Runner (plant part) - a type of stolon, horizontally growing on top of the ground and rooting at the nodes. e.g. strawberry, spider plant.
Scape - a stem that holds flowers that comes out of the ground and has no normal leaves. Hosta, Lily, Iris.
Fission, budding, fragmentation, and the formation of rhizomes and stolons are some of the mechanisms that allow organisms to reproduce asexually. The hydra produces buds; starfish can regenerate an entire body from a fragment of the original body.
the bread mold, Rhizopus stolonifera
Rhizopus oryzae, used to make sake, the rice wine of Asia. Can also infect humans, especially if they are immunosuppressed (e.g., AIDS patients, transplant recipients).
Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
 See also: Plant, Organ, Cells, Reproduction, Species
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