Morphological and anatomical characters of the spermoderm of certain taxa of the tribe Solaneae (Solanaceae) | ||
| Taeckholmia | ||
| Article 6, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-181 PDF (731.55 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/taec.1999.12643 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abd El-Salam Al- Nowaihi* 1; Magdy Mourad2 | ||
| 1Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| 2Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams university. Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The morphological and anatomical characters of the spermoderm of 49 native and foreign taxa in Wettstein’s tribe Solaneae were investigated for their delimitation as well as for a speculation of their phylogenetic status. The observations culminated into the suggestion of an identificatory key. Taxonomic changes including transference (re-allocation) and addition were done for some taxa. Nomenclatural amendments for some other taxa were suggested and a new species, Atropa lutea, has been reached at. The phylogenetic status of the studied taxa was speculated relying on the number of the spermoderm layers. Multi-layered spermoderm was considered less advanced than the few-layered one. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Solanaceae; Solaneae; spermoderm anatomy; spermoderm morphology | ||
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