Abstract
Various morphological details have been studied to configure the liable differences among the populations of Ephedra present in different altitudes of Lahaul and Spiti regions of India. Populations were distinguished on the basis of size of plants, colour of bark, branching pattern, number of scale-leaf and presence of papillation on the scale leaf, length of the internodes, and differences in the fruiting bodies. Epidermal features such as cell shapes, cuticular ornamentation and stomatal distribution, variations in the size of stomata, presence or absence of aborted stomata, stomatal index, shape and size of pore, size of lamellae, extent of papillation, presence or absence of pit have been observed in the cuticle. This study may help in circumscription of various species of Ephedra and distinguishing species on the basis of morphological variations found in the collected populations.
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Claim · model-written summary
Ephedra populations differed in plant size, bark colour, branching, scale-leaf traits, internode length and fruiting bodies across altitudes in Lahaul and Spiti.
- Outcome
- differences among the populationse1
- Qualifier
- size of plants, colour of bark, branching patterne2
- Setting
- Lahaul and Spiti regions of Indiae1
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Verbatim
e1“Various morphological details have been studied to configure the liable differences among the populations of Ephedra present in different altitudes of Lahaul and Spiti regions of India”
e2“Populations were distinguished on the basis of size of plants, colour of bark, branching pattern, number of scale-leaf and presence of papillation on the scale leaf, length of the internodes, and differences in the fruiting bodies”
Claim · model-written summary
Epidermal features of the Ephedra cuticle, including stomatal distribution and cuticular ornamentation, were observed.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Various morphological details have been studied to configure the liable differences among the populations of Ephedra present in different altitudes of Lahaul and Spiti regions of India”
e3“Epidermal features such as cell shapes, cuticular ornamentation and stomatal distribution, variations in the size of stomata, presence or absence of aborted stomata, stomatal index, shape and size of pore, size of lamellae, extent of papillation, presence or absence of pit have been observed in the cuticle”