Download Monocot Vascular Bundle 400X PNG. In monocot stem vascular bundles are oval shaped, scatteredly arranged in the ground tissue. Monocot have open vascular bundle because they lack vascular cambium but dicot have closed vascular bundle they have vascular cambium as a result in dicot secondary growth takes place but not in monocot stems have most of their vascular bundles near the outside edge of the stem.

Like monocot roots, monocot stems are protected by an outer layer of dermal tissue called the epidermis.

In dicots they form a ring surrounding the pith. They live only for a short period and withinthat time they finish life cycle they don'require a thick and strong stemmed one but certain exceptions are there like palm trees even so they they do have only scattered vascular bundles. In the dicot plant, the vascular bundles are arranged in a ring form, whereas in a monocot, these bundles appear scattered through the stem, with more of the bundles located towards the. Contrast the scattered vascular bundles of tripsacum dactyloides (eastern gamagrass).