Morphological and ontogenetic studies on southern African podocarps. Initiation of the seed scale complex and early development of integument, nucellus and epimatium
作者:
ELZABÉ STOFFBERG,
期刊:
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 105,
issue 1
页码: 21-35
ISSN:0024-4074
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1991.tb00198.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Conifers;female cone;ovule;Podocarpus
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
STOFFBERG, E., 1991. Morphological and ontogenetic studies on southern African podocarps. Initiation of the seed scale complex and early development of integument, nucellus and epimatium. The primordium of the seed scale complex (ssc) (ovule with epimatium) is initiated in the axil of the first or second cone bracts (prophylls) as a dome shaped structure consisting of a group of uniform, meristematic cells. A distinct protodermal layer develops. The nucellus is a dome on the ventral side of the ssc primordium. In the species of sectionPodocarpusthe integument is initiated as a circular ridge around the nucellus, while inP.falcatustwo protrusions on the anterior and posterior sides of the nucellus are the first indications of integumentary differentiation. The integument of all species studied is of subdermal origin. The epimatium(sensu stricto)is initiated after the integument, is of subdermal origin and forms a hood around the developing ovule. Considering research results, together with related literature, it is concluded that the integument of gymnosperms may be homologous with the outer integument of a bitegmic angiospermous ovule, that the position of integumentary initiation may be specific for certain taxa and that there seems to be no constant sequence of emergence of ovular envelopes in gymnosperms.
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