Pollen morphology of the genus Eremanthus Less. (Vernonieae, Asteraceae)

Acta Botanica Brasilica

BenoÎt Loeuille²  Raquel Maria Batista Souza-souza¹  Vanessa Holanda Righetti Abreu¹  Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonça¹  Vania Gonçalves-esteves¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências Departamento de BotânicaSão Paulo SP ,Brazil

关键词: Lychnophorinae;    Compositae;    taxonomy;    palynology;    Lychnophorinae;    Compositae;    taxonomia;    palinologia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-33062012000100006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In order to evaluate the significance of the pollen morphology for generic and infrageneric taxonomy of the genus Eremanthus (Vernonieae, Asteraceae), and to provide additional data for its phylogenetic reconstruction, the pollen of 20 of the 23 species of the genus was examined using light and scanning electron microscopy. Acetolysed pollen grains were measured, described, and illustrated using light microscopy, while non-acetolysed pollen grains were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. Pollen grains of these species are isopolar, oblate-spheroidal in most of the species, more rarely prolate spheroidal or suboblate, subtriangular amb, tricolporate and subechinolophate. The variation among quantitative characters does not correlate with the macromorphological subdivision of the genus or with the generic or specific limits.

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