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Flower anatomy of Lophiocarpus confirms an affinity to the Phytolaccaceae s.l. and a distance from the Chenopodiaceae.
- Taxon
- Lophiocarpus polystachyusLophiocarpus polystachyuse1
- Outcome
- affinity to the Phytolaccaceae s.l.e2
- Qualifier
- distance from the Chenopodiaceae because of the missing gynophore in the lattere2
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e1“Flower anatomy and embryology of Lophiocarpus polystachyus was studied”
e2“The flower anatomy of Lophiocarpus confirms an affinity to the Phytolaccaceae s.l. and its distance from the Chenopodiaceae because of the missing gynophore in the latter”
Title
On flower anatomy and embryology of Lophiocarpus polystachyus (Lophiocarpaceae)
Madjit Ismail Hakki Willdenowia - Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 2013. doi:10.3372/wi.43.43120
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- Observation Bisexual flowers of Lophiocarpus polystachyus possess a well-developed nectary.
- Observation The perianth of Lophiocarpus polystachyus flowers has five tepals.
- Observation The androecium of Lophiocarpus polystachyus is 4-merous or, more rarely, 3-merous through fusion of two adaxial stamens.
- Observation The gynoecium of Lophiocarpus polystachyus is unilocular with two fused carpels.
- Observation Anther wall formation in Lophiocarpus polystachyus conforms to the Monocotyledonous type.
- Observation Microsporocyte meiosis in Lophiocarpus polystachyus shows 9 bivalents.
- Observation Meiosis in Lophiocarpus polystachyus yields tetrahedral and decussate pollen tetrads.
- Observation Tricolpate pollen of Lophiocarpus polystachyus is 3-celled when shed.
- Observation The ovule of Lophiocarpus polystachyus is campylotropous, bitegmic and crassinucellate.
- Observation Embryo sac development in Lophiocarpus polystachyus is of the monosporic, Polygonum type.
- Observation Embryogenesis in Lophiocarpus polystachyus follows the Caryophyllad type of Johansen.
- Observation The fruit of Lophiocarpus polystachyus is a 1-seeded drupe.
- Observation Embryological data for Corbichonia do not corroborate an intimate relationship between Lophiocarpus and Corbichonia.