Pollen morphology of Rhynchosia and Eriosema (Fabaceae)

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 2395-2399 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. K. Ramcharan ◽  
J. H. McAndrews ◽  
J. W. Grear

The closely related genera Rhynchosia and Eriosema have tricolporate pollen. Twenty-two species of Rhynchosia and nine species of Eriosema were examined with the light microscope. Most of the species have isopolar-type grains, but 11 species have the hitherto rarely described heteropolar-type pollen, i.e. on a single grain, the ends of the colpi subtend a greater area at one pole than at the opposite pole. Duplicate examination of 13 species indicates that polarity types are constant within those species. While the genera cannot be separated on the basis of pollen morphology alone, there are some pollen characters which embrace most species in any one genus. Eriosema species are mostly heteropolar (67%) and Rhynchosia are predominantly isopolar (77%). The lumina of the reticulum of Rhynchosia tend to be smaller than those of Eriosema and, with one exception, the muri of Eriosema have acute tops while those of Rhynchosia are obtuse. Scanning electron micrographs illustrate pollen morphology.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Elvia Rodrigues Souza ◽  
Adelina Vitória Ferreira Lima ◽  
Luciano Paganucci Queiroz ◽  
Francisco A. Ribeiro Santos

Three new species of Calliandra section Monticola are described and illustrated: C. bromelioides, C. lewisii and C. oroboensis. All of them are endemic to the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. In addition we present a study of the pollen morphology using light microscopy and scanning electron micrographs. An identification key for the three new species and the most morphologically similar species in section Monticola is also provided. 


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (21) ◽  
pp. 2428-2442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf W. Mathewes

Six morphological types of Polemonium pollen are described, including P. micranthum which is the only taxon considered to be consistently identifiable to species. A key to the pollen types as seen in light microscopy is presented along with light and scanning electron micrographs of each type. The palynological evidence supports the taxonomic treatment of P. uciitiflorum and P. occidentale as subspecies of P. caeruleum, and supports a close affinity between P. pectinatum and P. foliosissimum. Brief summaries of the present-day ecology and distribution of Pacific Northwestern Polemonium species are presented. The application of indicator pollen analysis in Quaternary paleoecology is discussed, with special references to examples of paleoenvironmen-tal inference using Polemonium pollen types.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1259-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Prentice ◽  
O. Mastenbroek ◽  
W. Berendsen ◽  
P. Hogeweg

There is a geographic separation of the two pollen morphs in European Silene latifolia, with the changeover zone running northwest – southeast from the Netherlands to Greece. Reticulate grains are characteristic of western populations and microechinate grains are characteristic of eastern populations. The present study is based on a sample of one pollen grain from each of the male individuals from each of 32 greenhouse-grown populations representing the distribution of S. latifolia across Europe. The 316 grains were scored for 11 morphological characters (61 character states) under the light microscope. Population character-state frequencies were analysed using cluster analysis and principal components analysis. The results support the geographic distribution of pollen morphs, but the populations with the typical eastern and western morphs are linked by a belt of populations with intermediate pollen morphology. Intermediate pollen is characteristic of populations in a zone from Belgium to Italy; the zone represents a region of relatively rapid morphological change and is coincident with a similar zone of change in seed and flavonoid characters in S. latifolia. Scanning electron micrographs from each population provided further information on the pollen morphology and complemented the light microscopical observations. The variation pattern is illustrated by scanning electron micrographs from selected populations.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 373 (3) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
GABRIEL MORENO ◽  
ANGELA LÓPEZ VILLALBA ◽  
AURELIO CASTILLO ◽  
STEVEN L. STEPHENSON

A detailed morphological examination of 12 specimens representing seven species in the genera Lamproderma and Meriderma collected from snowbank habitats in the Himalayan Mountains in northwestern India was carried out. Two of the specimens are described herein as Lamproderma spinisporum, a species new to science. In addition, the material from northwestern India is compared with other similar taxa belonging to the genus Lamproderma. Light microscope photographs and scanning electron micrographs of the most representative morphological characters are provided.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 976-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Aiken

Pollen size and aperture number are reported for nine North American species of Myriophyllum. For seven of these, scanning electron micrographs are provided. The wall sculpture of M. alterniflorum is microrugulate and that of eight other species is microverrucate. In M. exalbescens and M. tenellum, microvermcae develop late in pollen maturation. Myriophyllum farwellii, a species that flowers underwater, has asymmetrically arranged pores and variation in pore number. An estimated 90% of M. farwellii pollen, from collections made in 1975 and 1976, had collapsed: the apparently sterile grains suggest that this species is at least partly apomictic. A pollen key to the species is provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 558 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT MESIBOV

Bromodesmus catrionae n. gen., n. sp. (type species), B. militaris n. sp., B. riparius n. sp. and B. rufus n. sp. are described. The new genus is characterized by greatly reduced paranota and a gonopod telopodite expanded at the distal end into a posteriorly concave hood fringed with teeth; the hood partly protects a long, curved, acutely pointed solenomerite. Male leg setation in the type species of six Tasmanian dalodesmid genera is briefly discussed and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. The sphaerotrichome shaft is sharply pointed in Atrophotergum; gently tapered in Dasystigma, Lissodesmus and Tasmanodesmus; expanded at the tip in Bromodesmus; and entirely absent in Gasterogramma. Tips of the setae forming the dense ventral brush on male podomeres are gently tapered in Dasystigma and Lissodesmus, truncated in Gasterogramma, expanded in Bromodesmus and forked in Tasmanodesmus.


Parasitology ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolen Rees

Scanning electron-micrographs have shown the covering of microvilli on the surface of the redia of Parorchis acanthus. In the contracted state the elongated microvilli with bulbous extremities seen in the surface grooves may be the result of compression. The surface of the epidermis of the cercaria is smooth on a large area of the ventral surface and lattice-like with microvilli, laterally, anteriorly, dorsally and on the tail. The spines on the body can be withdrawn into sheaths by the contraction of muscle fibres inserted into the basement lamina below each spine.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr I. ap Gwynn of this department for preparing the scanning electron-micrographs and the School of Engineering Science, University of North Wales, Bangor for the use of their stereoscan. I should also like to thank Mr M. C. Bibby for technical assistance and Professor E. G. Gray and Dr W. Sinclair for assistance with the transmission electron-micrographs.


2005 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
pp. 516-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nickolas G. Kavallieratos ◽  
Željko Tomanović ◽  
Christos G. Athanassiou ◽  
Petr Starý ◽  
Vladimir Žikić ◽  
...  

AbstractWe present new information on the parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) of aphids infesting cotton, tobacco, citrus, and cereal agroecosystems in southeastern Europe. Nineteen species are keyed and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs and line drawings. The aphidiines presented in this work have been identified from 18 aphid taxa. Furthermore, 96 original parasitoid–aphid–plant associations are presented. Cotton, tobacco, and citrus agroecosystems are connected through aphids and their parasitoids, whereas cereal agroecosystems represent a separate group of associations.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4378 (1) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUSTAFA E. GHALIOW ◽  
ANDJELJKO PETROVIĆ ◽  
KORANA KOCIĆ ◽  
JELISAVETA ČKRKIĆ ◽  
ANA MITROVSKI BOGDANOVIĆ ◽  
...  

Although Aphidiinae parasitoids have been used as agents for biocontrol of alfalfa aphids for more than half a century and have been the subject of numerous ecological investigations, there is an evident lack of systematic studies on the parasitoids of aphids infesting alfalfa in Europe. Here we present an original and up-dated key for identification of both native and invasive Aphidiinae parasitoids attacking aphids that feed on alfalfa in Europe. In total, 20 species are keyed and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs and line drawings. 


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 4109-4120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Saraf ◽  
C. Shivakumara ◽  
Sukanti Behera ◽  
H. Nagabhushana ◽  
N. Dhananjaya

Crystal structure of tetragonal BiOCl, field emission scanning electron micrographs, CIE chromaticity diagram and percentage of RhB dye degradation of Bi1−xEuxOCl.


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