SEED-COAT MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY IN COLLOMIA (POLEMONIACEAE)

Seed-coat morphology of 14 species of Collomia (Polemoniaceae) was examined with light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Two seed types were observed based on surface sulpturing: Type 1—hexagonal epidermal cells forming a shallow reticulum with well-defined cell boundaries; Type 2—longitudinally ridged and irregularly arranged crater-like depressions with inconspicuous cell boundaries. Only two species, C. debilis and C. larsenii of sect. Collomiastrum have seed-coat Type 1. Seed-coat Type 2 is characteristic of all species of sect. Collomia, sect. Courtoisia, and C. mazama, C. rawsoniana of sect. Collomiastrum. The present investigation reveals a fairly homogeneous seed-coat pattern in the genus and does not offer significant information for realignment of infrageneric classification. Anatomical studies with light microscopy show that a mucilaginous seed coat develops from the outermost layer of integument in which each epidermal cell develops spiral secondary wall thickenings. Mucilaginous seeds of most Collomia species probably provide adaptive significance in that adherence of seeds to ground prohibits further dispersal to unfavorable habitats, or epizoochoric dispersal.     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF SIPHONOGLOSSA SENSU LATO (ACANTHACEAE)

Pollen morphology of 15 species of Siphonoglossa and of two closely related groups was investigated. Two tribal-specific pollen types are found within Siphonoglossa sensu lato suggesting that the genus is artificial, composed of taxa belonging in several genera among two tribes (subtribes sensu Bremekamp) of Acanthaceae. Five taxa currently included in an informal subgeneric category of Siphonoglossa have tricolporate, prolate pollen (termed Type I) that is characteristic of Odontonemeae (= Odontoneminae, Justicieae). Pollen of the remaining taxa, belonging in two formal sections of the genus, are mostly 2-porate, bilateral (Type II) with a sexine sculpturing characteristic of Justicieae (= Justiciinae). Pollen of section Siphonoglossa is rather uniform, 2-porate, bilateral with lolongate pores, and seem to delimit a natural group. Taxa of section Pentaloba have a more heterogeneous pollen morphology, mostly 2-porate, bilateral with lalongate pores. Controversial aspects of the interpretation of pollen morphology in Justiciinae are presented and their relevance to this study are examined. Hypothetical trends in the evolution of pollen of Justiciinae are discussed and the application of pollen morphology to taxonomy of the genus is presented, including a recommendation for narrowing the generic concept of Siphonoglossa to the taxa of the type section.     

中国东北柳属花粉形态及其系统学研究

本研究对中国东北地区产柳属17个组的29种, 6变种, 1变型的花粉进行了光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜观察。结果表明, 同一种的花粉粒形态相对稳定, 花粉粒的萌发孔类型, 表面网状纹饰类型及纹饰的亚显微形态, 及外壁厚度等特征与组的关系较密切, 而在组内各种间趋于一致;种间自然杂交种的花粉粒形态特征, 表现其亲本的中间类型。聚类分析结果表明, 五蕊柳与大白柳组进化关系密切。     

中国东北牻牛儿苗科（Geraniaceae）花粉形态与系统分类学研究

本文对中国东北牛儿苗科Ｇｅｒａｎｉａｃｅａｅ老鹳草属Ｇｅｒａｎｉｕｍ和牛儿苗属Ｅｒｎｄｉｕｍ植物计２属,１４种,２变种及１变型的花粉形态进行了较系统的研究。并对本科花粉形态进行了分类处理,编制了花粉形态科种检索表。结果表明,本科花粉如按萌发孔类型、外壁雕纹式样可以分为二大类：即三孔沟,外壁雕纹瘤状（Ｇｅｒａｎｉｕｍ）三沟,外壁雕纹网状（Ｅｒｏｄｉｕｍ）。在老鹳草属种及种下等级的分类处理中,花粉粒大小、萌发沟长度、外壁覆盖层网眼均匀性、直径大小、网脊上纹饰及外壁雕纹瘤纹突起均匀性、大小及瘤上纹饰都具有较大的分类学意义。花粉形态分类与经典分类对本科分类群的处理意见相吻合。大大丰富了本科分类微形态的证据。     

THE BALANCE BETWEEN CHASMOGAMY AND CLEISTOGAMY IN COLLOMIA GRANDIFLORA (POLEMONIACEAE)

The extent of cleistogamy (CL) and chasmogamy (CH) was investigated in natural populations of Collomia grandiflora Dougl. ex Lindl. The ubiquitous occurrence of CL flowers was documented in 18 populations from throughout the geographic range of the species. The interrelationship of environmental perturbation, vegetative weight, and the balance between CH and CL flowers was investigated by means of a factorial experiment which varied plant density, incident light and soil mix. An ANOVA revealed that total plant weight increased significantly under conditions of low density, low light and low sand content, with density accounting for most of the variance in plant weight. Interactions involving density were not significant. The number of CH and CL flowers and estimated percent outcrossing increased significantly with increased plant weight, low density, low light, and low sand content, although an analysis of covariance showed that plant weight and density accounted for most of the variance in these traits. Among large, multibranched plants, the proportion of CL flowers increased in a basipetal pattern, whereas most of the CH flowers were restricted to the terminal and upper inflorescences. The smallest plants produced only a single terminal inflorescence comprising entirely CL flowers. The proportion of reproductive effort allocated to outcrossing was dependent upon plant size as estimated from total weight, whereas the proportion allocated to ***selfing was relatively independent. Studies of outcrossed vs. inbred progenies of five populations revealed little evidence for immediate inbreeding depression with respect to plant weight and the number of CH or CL flowers, but indicated that significant quantitative genetic differences exist for these traits among populations of diverse ecological or geographical origin.     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY OF SCHEFFLERA (ARALIACEAE)

Pollen of 48 species of Schefflera was studied by light and scanning electron microscopy. Eight pollen types are distinguished on the basis of sexine sculpturing and structure, apertural shape, and shape and size of the grains. These pollen types correlate well with other data such as the number of carpels, the condition of corolla, infloresence types, and geographical distribution of each species. To determine the evolutionary status of sexine structure, an association between sexine characters and the number of carpels was sought. Assuming polymery of floral parts to be a primitive condition in Araliaceae, the undifferentiated sexine, which occurs in the multicarpellate species, also appears to be primitive. Other unspecialized features include short grains, and non-sculptured, imperforate tectum. Several species in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands belong to this putative ancestral pollen type, from which other types may have been derived.     

VEGETATIVE AND FLORAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN POPULATIONS OF COLLOMIA LINEARIS NUTTALL (POLEMONIACEAE)

Thirty-seven characters were measured on greenhouse grown progenies of twenty-three populations representing, for Collomia linearis, a broad geographical and ecological distribution in western North America. Twelve vegetative and seventeen floral characters showed significant among-population/within-population variance ratios (F-statistics). Overall, floral characters showed higher F-statistics than did vegetative characters. The F-statistics and character means were used to construct phenograms based on weighted similarity measures and single-linkage clustering. With the exception of a homogeneous cluster comprising northern Rocky Mountain OTUs, relationships based on floral characters were geographically random. No clearly defined morphological trends toward increased autogamy were observed in association with geographical or ecological distribution. Several clustering relationships, based on vegetative characters, were interpreted as representing geographically unrelated genotypes convergent with respect to ecotypic differentiation. The most distinctive clusters of OTUs in the vegetative phenogram were associated with subalpine and wet meadow sites, habitats considered as ecologically marginal for the species. Comparison of the two phenograms revealed considerable disparity between relationships based on floral characters and those based on vegetative characters. This disparity lends support to the hypothesis that floral and vegetative character combinations are subject to independent selective processes. The absence of polyploidy or mitotically detectable chromosomal rearrangements indicates that the observed variation among widely separated populations represents either divergence or convergence via genetic differentiation at the diploid level.     

PALYNOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF CUPHEA (LYTHRACEAE). II. POLLEN MORPHOLOGY AND INFRAGENERIC CLASSIFICATION

Present taxonomic studies in Cuphea (Lythraceae) reveal that a broad spectrum of biosystematic data is required for an understanding of evolutionary relationships among this large and complex group of species. As part of these studies pollen data have proven to be of greater pragmatic value than is frequently true for more stenopalynous taxa. A survey is made of pollen types in 160 species of Cuphea with special reference to specific taxonomic problems, and a summary presented of points at which pollen data can profitably contribute to taxonomic revision of the genus.     

PALYNOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF CUPHEA (LYTHRACEAE). I. MORPHOLOGY AND ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE POLLEN WALL

A survey of pollen from 153 species of Cuphea has revealed a remarkable array of morphological forms. The survey involved light and electron microscope investigations of C. crassiflora, jorullensis, and koehneana to determine details of exine morphology, and a more general study of pollen from an additional 150 species. Comparison of pollen types within a single morphological category and within taxonomic groups (i.e., sections or subsections) indicates considerable variation at subgeneric levels. The genus is distinctly eurypalynous, and the extent to which pollen varies among the sections, subsections, species and varieties is probably exceeded by few genera of comparable size. The pollen is also variable within each taxon, but size studies of single-anther lactic acid preparations demonstrate the genus is not polymorphic, as in Lythrum, where pollen polymorphism is associated with heterostyly. The latter phenomenon is as yet unknown in Cuphea. These results reveal that pollen morphology constitutes an important and useful character for taxonomic studies of Cuphea.     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY OF THE EUCHARIDEAE (AMARYLLIDACEAE)

Eucharis, Caliphruria, and Urceolina form a monophyletic group of petiolate-leaved, Neotropical Amaryllidaceae ecologically specialized to the understory of primary tropical rain forest below 2,000 m elevation. Pollen morphology of the three genera is surveyed. Pollen grains of all species of Eucharis, Caliphruria, and Urceolina are boat-shaped elliptic, monosulcate, heteropolar, and bilateral in symmetry. Exine sculpturing is semitectate-columellate and reticulate in all species examined. A transformation series in reticulum coarseness and pollen grain size is described. The large pollen grain with coarse reticulum of most Eucharis species is considered ancestral. The fine reticulation of Caliphruria is considered derived and the exine morphology of Urceolina is intermediate. Both of these genera have medium-sized pollen grains. Exine dimorphism common to all Urceolina, but rare in Eucharis and Caliphruria, may be symplesiomorphous among those taxa exhibiting this morphology. The three genera are largely uniform in pollen grain ultrastructure, with completely ektexinous exines. Pollen grain size in Eucharis is not closely correlated with style length. Several wide-ranging species show considerable intraspecific variation in pollen size. Parallelisms in pollen grain evolution among related tribes of Neotropical Amaryllidaceae are discussed.     

后蕊苣苔属的花粉形态

本文用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜系统观察了苦苣苔科后蕊苣苔属的花粉形态,本属花粉粒为近球形,稍长或稍扁,具三拟孔沟,个别种具四拟孔沟的萌发孔类型,外壁表面具网状纹饰,网脊光滑或具小刺。根据网脊宽度。网眼形状以及网纹明显程度而将本属花粉分为三个类群.1.网脊较宽,宽度不均匀,网脊宽度大于网眼直径,包括的植物种类有Opithandra sinohenryi,O.primoloides和O.fargesii等三种;2.网脊较窄,宽度均匀,包括的种类是O.dalzielii,O.obtusidentata,O.dinghushnnensis和O.cinerea等4种;3.网不明显,小刺突出,具这种纹饰的植物只有O.acaulis一种。     

绣球亚科花粉形态的研究

借助光学显微镜和扫描电镜观察了绣球亚科９属３１种植物的花粉形态．本亚科的花粉多为近球形至近长球形,少数为扁球形．多具三孔沟。在叉叶蓝属观察到了极度缩短的花粉沟．花粉外壁表面纹饰为具颗粒状或棱形突起、孔穴状或明显网纹,表现出一定程度的变异．花粉形态表明黄山梅属在本亚科与其它属具一致性,冠盖藤属和钻地风属亲缘较近．绣球属花粉形态所表现出来的变异范围大致将其它几属的都包括在内了,表明绣球属可能在本亚科演化上处于一个中心位置。花粉形态结合外部宏观形态又表明绣球亚科各属之间没有十分明确的界限,存在着复杂的性状上的重叠．     

TAXONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF EXTERNAL POLLEN MORPHOLOGY TO VERNONIA (COMPOSITAE) IN THE WEST INDIES

External pollen morphology of 39 species of West Indian Vernonias was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy in conjunction with a systematic revision of these species. There were three distinct types of pollen: Type A: subechinolophate, tricolporate grains with prominent spines; Type B: echinolophate, tricolporate with expanded germinal furrows and coincident polar muri; Type C: echinolophate, tricolporate grains with prominent polar lacunae. Pollen grains intermediate between the major types were found in several species. These same species had very distinct and atypical megamorphologies. In general, pollen types were found to correlate well with classification based on megamorphological characters, particularly at the infrageneric level, and to provide confirmation of subsectional assignments in the genus.     

隐翼科花粉形态的研究

报道了隐翼科Ｇｒｙｐｔｅｒｏｎｉａｃｅａｅ花粉形态及其外壁超微结构,并与广义的隐翼科其它属的花粉进行比较。研究表明,该科的隐翼属Ｃｒｙｐｔｅｒｏｎｉａ以长椭圆形的极面观、近乎四棱形的赤道面观,２孔沟的萌发孔和较厚的外壁内层明显地区别于其它属的花粉。吉Ａｘｉｎａｎｄｒａ属、Ｄａｃｔｙｌｏｃｌａｄｕｓ属和Ｒｈｙｎｃｈｏｃａｌｙｘ属的花粉为圆六角形（极面观）,具３孔沟的假沟;Ａｌｚａｔｅａ属花粉为圆三角     

紫草亚科附地菜族的花粉形态研究

本文用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜系统观察了附地菜族5个属26种植物花粉形态。五属是附地菜属、车前紫草属、滨紫草属、山茄子属和皿果草属。观察证明属间花粉形态有明显的差异。花粉资料为族内属的划分和皿果草属的建立提出了花粉学证据。     

A COMPARISON OF CLEISTOGAMOUS AND CHASMOGAMOUS FLORAL DEVELOPMENT IN COLLOMIA GRANDIFLORA DOUGL. EX LINDL. (POLEMONIACEAE)

An individual of Collomia grandiflora typically produces both closed or cleistogamous (CL) and open or chasmogamous (CH) flowers. The developmental origin of these dimorphic floral types within a plant was investigated using histological techniques, allometric relationships, and scanning electron microscopy. Prior to archesporal cell stage in the anthers, CL and CH meristems are indistinguishable. In the CL anther, an absence of ventral locule cell differentiation together with a shorter period of time between archesporial cell differentiation and meiosis in the two dorsal locules results in accelerated anther dehiscence and a smaller mature anther size and pollen grain number. Divergence between the CL and CH patterns of corolla development is coincident with microspore mitosis in the CH anther. At this point, there is an increase in growth in corolla length relative to growth in calyx length in the CH flower which does not occur in the CL flower. Calyx and ovary development are similar in the two floral forms; however, ovary expansion due to fertilization occurs earlier in the CL flower as a result of precocious anther development and stigma receptivity. The hypothesis that anther differentiation may trigger organ growth rate changes and differentiation events in the flower and hypothetical roles for abscisic acid and gibberellin in modifying floral development in C. grandiflora are discussed.     

几种含笑属(木兰科)植物的花粉形态

含笑属 ( Michelia) 4种花粉光镜下形态相似。SEM下观察 ,黄兰 ( M.champaca)和金叶含笑 ( M.foveolata)表面雕纹为小穿孔 ,苦梓含笑 ( M.balansae)为小穴 ,野含笑 ( M.skinner-iana)为细皱纹 ,较粗糙。 TEM下观察 ,4种花粉外壁均可分为覆盖层、柱状层和基层。其中黄兰的柱状层结构较原始 ,金叶含笑的较进化。花粉形态在一定程度上可反映类群的系统演化。     

几种含笑属(木兰科)植物的花粉形态

含笑属（Ｍｉｃｈｅｌｉａ）４种花粉光镜下形态相似。ＳＥＭ下观察,黄兰（Ｍ．ｃｈａｍｐａｃａ）和金叶含笑（Ｍ．ｆｏｖｅｏｌａｔａ）表面雕纹为小穿孔,苦梓含笑（Ｍ．ｂａｌａｎｓａｅ）为小穴,野含笑（Ｍ．ｓｋｉｎｎｅｒ－ｉａｎａ）为细皱纹,较粗糙。ＴＥＮ下观察,４种花粉外壁均可分为覆盖层、柱状层和基层。其中黄兰的柱状层结构较原始,金叶含笑的较进化。花粉形态在一定程度上可反映类群的系统演化。