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Biosystematic studies for some Egyptian Amaranthus L. taxa and their significance in their identification.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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1. Vascular plant taxonomy

Abstract

Ten Egyptian Amaranthus species have been collected from the field and their inflorescence, floral, pollen grains, fruit, and seeds have been studied carefully by using both stereo- and Scanning electron microscopes. The results has been analyzed using PAST program and gave clustering dendrogram for the studied taxa. The result obtained showed that from the most important character in the identification of the taxa is the number of flowers/unit area of the terminal panicle, beside the type of inflorescence. Pollen morphology gave little account in the circumscription of the studied taxa. Type of fruit indehiscent versus indehiscent fruits can be used in the recognition of some species. Seed shape, micropyle position and microstructure features are more efficient in the identification of the studied taxa beside the fruit characters. In spite of that, seed characters can help in distinguishing the species, but they are not in accordance with the division of the taxa into distinct sections.

DOI

10.21608/taec.2020.26080.1018

Keywords

Bract, Flower, fruit, seed, Taxonomy

Authors

First Name

Wafaa

Last Name

Taia

MiddleName

Kamal

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University

Email

taiataxonomy86@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0003-4581-676X

First Name

Azza

Last Name

Shehata

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Alexandria University

Email

dr_azzashehata@yahoo.com

City

ALEXANDRIA

Orcid

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First Name

Eslam

Last Name

Elshamy

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University

Email

eslamelshamy510@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Manaser

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Botany department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University

Email

manaser99@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0002-2064-6840

Volume

40

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

10428

Issue Date

2020-01-01

Receive Date

2020-03-18

Publish Date

2020-04-17

Page Start

85

Page End

99

Print ISSN

1110-7413

Online ISSN

2357-044X

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https://taec.journals.ekb.eg/article_83001.html

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7

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Original Article

Type Code

636

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Taeckholmia

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https://taec.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023