Taxonomic application of foliar anatomy in grasses of tribe eragrostideae (poaceae) from salt range of Pakistan | [Pakistan Journal of Botany • 2011]

Author(s):

1. Farooq Ahmad: Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, PAKISTAN

2. Mansoor Hameed: Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, PAKISTAN

3. Mir Ajab Khan: Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

4. Mushtaq Ahmad: Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

5. Muhammad Zafar: Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

6. Rasool Bakhsh Tareen: Department of Botany, University of Balochistan, Quetta, PAKISTAN

7. Asma Jabeen: Environmental Sciences Program, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN

Abstract:

Foliar anatomical investigations of some members belonging to tribe Eragrostideae (Poaceae) were carried out. In total of 8 species belonging to 6 genera were collected in wild from SaltRangeregion of Pakistan for anatomical studies. Maximum length of long cells was observed in genus Eragrostis. Macrohairs are found absent in all species except Eragrostis papposa. Acrachne racemosa is identified by dumb bell shaped or cross shaped silica bodies while saddle shaped silica bodies are present in other species. Desmostachya bipinnata is distinct by having a tall girder of bulliform cells, from adaxial to abaxial side. Microhairs with hemispherical distal cell, saddle shaped silica bodies and bulliform cells deeply penetrating the mesophyll are the diagnostic characters, which justify all the species in the same tribe.

Page(s): 2277-2284

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Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Botany, Volume: 43, Issue: 5, Year: 2011

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