Claim · model-written summary
Menyanthes has dicotyledonous anther walls, endothelium development, and cellular endosperm.
- Taxon
- Menyanthes
Menyanthest0
- Outcome
- dicotyledonous type of anther wall, the development of an endothelium, and endosperm formation of the Cellular typee0
Verbatim
e0“the dicotyledonous type of anther wall, the development of an endothelium, and endosperm formation of the Cellular type”
t0“Menyanthes”
Title
Embryology of Menyanthes (Menyanthaceae): its description and taxonomic implications
Hyerin Kim; Kweon Heo Nordic Journal of Botany 2025. doi:10.1111/njb.04575
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Vascular bundles extending into the integument were identified as an autapomorphy.
- Observation Menyanthes and Nymphoides shared family level embryological traits except pollen cell number at shedding.
- Observation Goodeniaceae and Asteraceae exhibited tetra sporangia and glandular tapetum.
- Observation Menyanthes showed an apomorphic unilocular ovary with two parietal placentae.
- Observation Menyanthaceae embryology supported classification in Asterales under APG IV.
- Observation Menyanthaceae was inferred to be primitive relative to three other Asterales families.