Cystolith
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Cystolith (Gr. "cavity" and "stone") is a botanical term for outgrowths of the epidermal cell wall, usually of calcium carbonate but sometimes of silicon dioxide also, formed in a cellulose matrix in special cells called lithocysts, generally in the leaf of plants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cystolith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.