%0 Journal Article
%T Palynological features of eleven <i>Aethionema</i> taxa from Turkey and their systematic implications
%A Mehmet Cengiz Karaismailoglu
%J Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy
%D 2017
%R https://doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v24i2.35115
%X 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 ¦Ìm and the equatorial axes 7.85-22.02 ¦Ìm; mostly tricolpate, rarely 2-colpate; surface ornamentation is micro or macro reticulate. The exine thickness varies between 0.66 and 1.91 ¦Ìm, and in tine thickness ranges from 0.27 to 0.85 ¦Ìm. It is found that dimension of pollen grains, surface ornamentation, apocolpidium and amb diameter are taxonomically significant. Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 24(2): 197-204.
%K Aethionema
%K Brassicaceae
%K Pollen
%K Morphology
%K Turkey
%K SEM
%K PCA.
%U https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJPT/article/view/35115