Palynological insights of the eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct genus Symplocarpus (Araceae) |
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Authors: | Sangryong Lee Sangtae Lee Kyeongin Heo Seung-Chul Kim |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Environmental Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan;(2) Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-Dong, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, 440-746, Korea; |
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Abstract: | Symplocarpus L. (Araceae) is a disjunct genus including S. foetidus (L.) Nutt. var. latissimus (Makino) S. Hara, S. nipponicus Makino, and S. nabekuraensis Otsuka & K. Inoue in temperate eastern Asia; S. egorovii N. S. Pavlova & V. A. Nechaev in the Russian far east; and S. foetidus (L.) Nutt. in temperate northeastern North America. For the first time, pollen morphology of Symplocarpus was investigated by light and scanning electron microscopes. Symplocarpus foetidus var. latissimus and S. foetidus had reticulate surfaces and rounded (obtuse), long, equatorial axis tips, whereas S. nipponicus had microreticulate surfaces and acute tips. Symplocarpus foetidus in North America had larger pollen grains than S.
foetidus var. latissimus in eastern Asia. Thus, based on pollen characteristics, S. foetidus var. latissimus is more closely related to S. foetidus than to S. nipponicus. Other lines of evidence, such as molecular phylogenetic studies and phenology, support the phylogenetic relationships among
these species proposed in this study. The slightly modified acetolysis procedure conducted in this paper is a promising application
to study weak exine or exineless pollen grains. |
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