PALYNOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ELEVEN AETHIONEMA TAXA FROM TURKEY AND THEIR SYSTEMATIC IMPLICATIONS


Karaismailoglu M. C.

BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF PLANT TAXONOMY, vol.24, no.2, pp.197-204, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 24 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.3329/bjpt.v24i2.35115
  • Journal Name: BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF PLANT TAXONOMY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.197-204
  • Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Pollen morphology of 11 taxa, including 2 endemic of the genus Aethionema W.T. Aiton from Turkey was examined under light and scanning electron microscopes. The pollens of Aethionema are mostly isopolar and bilaterally symmetric; spheroidal, prolate, perprolate and subprolate with the polar axes 14.07-26.41 mu m and the equatorial axes 7.85-22.02 mu m; mostly tricolpate, rarely 2-colpate; surface ornamentation is micro or macro reticulate. The exine thickness varies between 0.66 and 1.91 mu m, and in tine thickness ranges from 0.27 to 0.85 mu m. It is found that dimension of pollen grains, surface ornamentation, apocolpidium and amb diameter are taxonomically significant.