scholarly journals Pollen morphology of 10 taxa belonging to Prangos Lindl. and Ekimia H. Duman & M.F. Watson (Umbelliferae) from turkey and its taxonomic significance

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevil Pehlivan ◽  
Birol Baser ◽  
Evren Cabi

Pollen grains of nine taxa of Prangos Lindl. and one of Ekimia H. Duman & M.F. Watson (Umbelliferae) were examined with LM (light microscope) and SEM (scanning electron microscope), and of them four with TEM (transmission electron microscope). The quantitative data were also subjected to cluster analysis. The obtained phenogram revealed that Ekimia bornmuelleri (Hub.-Mor. & Reese) H. Duman & M.F. Watson is strictly different from the taxa of Prangos regarding their quantitative pollen profile; except P. ferulacea Lindl., all taxa included in section Intactae formed a cluster together; members of section Meliocarpoides and section Prangos show a closer relationship regarding their pollen features. Exine ornamentations of Prangos and Ekimia are rugulate-striate and are of no value for identification purposes.

1970 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Ozler ◽  
S Pehlivan

Pollen grains of 20 taxa from two genera of the Liliaceae were examined and compared by LM (light microscope), SEM (scanning electron microscope) and pollens of four taxa were also examined with TEM (transmission electron microscope). Pollen grains shed as monads. They are monosulcate and ellipsoidal. Fritillaria crassifolia subsp. crassifolia Freyn & Smt. sometimes sheds the pollen as dyads. Exine is semitectate and the tectum is perforate. Columellae are simplicolumellate. Ectexine is thicker than endexine. Exine sculpture (ornamentation) is reticulate, reticulate-rugulate, rugulate and retipilate in Asparagus pollens and reticulate, suprareticulate, rugulate-reticulate and striate-reticulate in Fritillaria pollens. Sulcus extends from distal to proximal in some pollens of Asparagus and Fritillaria.   Key words: Asparagus, Fritillaria, Liliaceae, Pollen morphology DOI = 10.3329/bjb.v36i2.1498 Bangladesh J. Bot. 36(2): 111-120, 2007 (December)


1970 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Özler ◽  
S Pehlivan

Pollen grains of 16 taxa of Allium L. belonging to sections Rhizirideum G. Don ex Koch., Codonoprasum Reichb. and Allium L. were investigated using light and scanning electron microscope, and pollens of four taxa were also examined with transmission electron microscope. Pollens were monosulcate and ellipsoidal. It was observed that the sulcus extends from distal to proximal in all taxa. The exine was semitectate and the tectum was perforate. Columellae were simplicolumellate. Exine sculpture was striate-perforate, striate-rugulate-perforate and rugulate-perforate. A. albidum Fischer ex Bieb. subsp. caucasicum (Regel) Stearn, A. rupicola Boiss ex Mouterde and A. asperiflorum Miscz. were seen to have an operculum. Key words: Allium; Codonoprasum; Rhizirideum; Alliaceae; Pollen morphology; Turkey DOI: 10.3329/bjb.v39i1.5524Bangladesh J. Bot. 39(1): 37-36, 2010 (June)


2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Klimko ◽  
Krystyna Idzikowska ◽  
Mariola Truchan ◽  
Anna Kreft

Pollen grains of 9 species of the genus <em>Plantago</em> (Plantaginaceae), including 8 taxa native to Poland, were observed under a light microscope and a scanning electron microscope. Descriptions of grain sculpture are illustrated only SEM micrographs. The studied pollen grains were medium-sized or small, spherical or prolate spheroidal. Their sculpture was always verrucate with granulation. In the studied taxa, internal apertures had the form of pores. Their number ranged from (4)5-9(14). The pores were scattered on the surface of pollen grains. Identification features of individual taxa include: presence or absence of an annulus around each pore, annulus structure, ornamentation of the pollen grain and operculum, type of aperture membrane, number of internal pores, and pore diameter. We suggest that two new pollen grain types, characteristic of <em>P. intermedia</em> and <em>P. arenaria</em>, should be distinguished, and that <em>P. alpina</em> should be assigned to the <em>P. coronopus</em> type.


Genetika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 851-865
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Fallah ◽  
Farrokh Ghahremaninejad

The palynomorphological characteristics of 5 species belonging to Hedera of the Araliaceae family were studied in detail. These plant species were collected from various phytogeographical regions of Iran and Hungary. The palynological investigation was accomplished using Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Pollen grains of the species are reticulate, prolate, sub-prolate, tricolporate, isopolar, radially symmetrical, and monad. The largest pollen grain was in the Hedera colchica species (72.24?1.6 ?m) and the smallest pollen grain was in Hedera helix (28.63?2.1 ?m). The research carried out by the TEM showed that the species were different in terms of exine thickness, tectum thickness, foot layer thickness, the diameter and length of the Columella, the thickness and shape of the Caput, the tectum to foot layer )T/F( ratio, the absence or presence of the Endexine and the thickness of the Intine layers. The main purpose of this study was the importance of the relationship between pollen grain size and the number of chromosomes and ploidy level in Hedera species.


Rodriguésia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alano César Rocha de Assis ◽  
Eduardo Custódio Gasparino ◽  
Marileide Dias Saba

Abstract In the present work, the pollen morphology of 22 species of Anacardiaceae was analysed, occurring in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The palynological material was obtained from specimens deposited in herbaria. The pollen grains were acetolysed, measured, illustrated and described under light and scanning electron microscopies. The quantitative data were statistically analysed according to sample size. The analysed species presented pollen grains in monads, small to medium sized, isopolar, amb circular to subtriangular, with shapes varying from oblate-spheroidal to prolate, 3-colporate, with fastigium in some species. The exine ornamentation was characterized as psilate, striate, microreticulate-striate, striato-perforate, suprastriato-infra(micro)reticulate. The pollen morphology variation confirms the eurypalynous character of the family. The attributes of the apertures and exine may collaborate in the taxonomic circumscription and provide a clarification of the phylogenetic relationships of the group.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-211
Author(s):  
Saurabh Sachan ◽  
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S.B. Padal ◽  

Genus Cassytha (Lauraceae) is characterized by unigue Pollen morphology. We Prepared strains of C. filiformis following acetolysis method (Ikuse, 1956) for observation under Light Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope. The present study revealed that the lamellar and scbrate nature of exine are entirely different and attributing to different morphology of pollen grains, especially the shape. This communication provides a comparison of pollen morphology between Indian and South African species filiformis discriminates the morphological variations found among the Indian specimens of C. filiformis from that of South African region.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Hebda ◽  
C. C. Chinnappa ◽  
B. M. Smith

Morphology and geographic variation of pollen grains of three genera of the Rosaceae (Dryas, Fragaria, Holodiscus) of western Canada were studied using the light microscope and scanning electron microscope. Dryas spp. pollen is tricolporate with a weakly developed fusiform aperture in the colpus, which upon expansion of the grain becomes a large rectangular opening. Sculpturing consists of ridges and valleys (striate or rugulate), the latter containing perforations, which grades to a network of ridges and perforations (reticulate) at colpus margins. Ridges are parallel to the colpus or form looping patterns. Dryas integrifolia and Dryas octopetala pollen in silicone oil usually are larger than those of Dryas drummondii. Fragaria spp. pollen is tricolporate with a well-developed complex equatorial aperture. Fragaria chiloensis and F. vesca exhibit a lobed and equatorially extended endoaperture, which is overarched by sexine. Fragaria virginiana usually has a less distinct endoaperture. Fragaria species have a fusiform colpus operculum. Sculpturing consists of nonasastomosing ridges parallel to the colpus and valleys containing obscure microperforations. Holodiscus discolor pollen is tricolporate. Sculpturing is striate to reticulostriate, consisting of ridges and valleys with perforations. A distinct zone, either lacking ridges or of densely packed ridges, borders the colpus.


2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talip Ceter ◽  
Seher Karaman Erkul ◽  
Zeki Aytac ◽  
Birol Baser

Pollen morphology of 11 species of the genus Oxytropis DC. (Fabaceae) distributed in Turkey were examined with light (LM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Morphology of pollen grains shows isopolar, radially symmetric, tricolporate, prolate or subprolate, porus shape oblate or operculate and exine subtectate. The size varies with the polar axis from 19.52 - 33.31 ?m and the equatorial axis from 13.50 - 25.82 ?m. There are five ornamentation types: perforate at equatorial section and psilate at polar sections, microreticulate at equatorial sections and psilate at polar sections, microreticulate at equatorial sections and perforate at polar sections, microreticulate at both equatorial and polar sections and perforate at both equatorial and polar sections. Pollen aperture, shape and especially different ornamentation patterns at polar and equatorial section of pollen, as found in this study, appear to be important character. The findings of this study indicate the taxonomic implications of pollen morphology in understanding the similarity and relationships in the genus Oxytropis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjb.v42i1.15908 Bangladesh J. Bot. 42(1): 167-174, 2013 (June)


2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahryar Saeidi Mehrvarz ◽  
Narjes Yousefi ◽  
Maryam Mohammadi ◽  
Thomas Marcussen

AbstractPollen morphology of 17 species of Viola representing five sections, Melanium, Plagiostigma, 'Spathulidium' ined., Sclerosium, and Viola, was studied using light and scanning electron microscope. Pollen grains were usually symmetrical, tetrazonocolporate to pentazonocolporate in section Melanium and trizonocolporate to tetrazonocolporate in the other four sections. Pollen shape was circular to subtriangular, tetragonal or pentagonal in polar view and prolate to oblate, spheroidal or pyramidal in equatorial view. Exine ornamentation was granulate, psilate and mostly perforate. The psilate type was only observed in V. modesta.We found heteromorphy in aperture number in V. caspia of section Viola, V. occulta of section Melanium and V. behboudiana of section Sclerosium, which corroborates their higher ploidy than in related species (octoploid versus tetraploid).


Biologia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emine Alçitepe

AbstractThe pollen morphology of Turkish species belonging to sect. Quinqueloculares (Boiss.) Phitos (Campanulaceae) were investigated with a light microscope (LM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). All examined species are endemic, except Campanula crispa Lam. According to the results of this study, pollen grains of the examined taxa were triporate and spheroidal. Their sculpture was spinose and baculate (C. crispa Lam.); spinulose and microperforate (C. tomentosa Lam.); microperforate (C. vardariana Bocquet) or more commonly, microechinate (C. iconia Phitos, C. lyrata Lam. subsp. lyrata, C. hagielia Boiss., C. sorgerae Phitos, C. betonicifolia SM., C. karadjana Bocquet, C. telmessi Hub.-Mor. & Phitos, C. davisii Turrill).


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