COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL, KARYOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL STUDIES ON Alliurn scorodoprasum COMPLEX IN EUROPEAN TURKEY

Authors : N Özhatay, LüstünAHMERİÇLİ

Pages : 31-42

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Publication Date : 2015-09-09

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :A close examination of the outer and inner morphological characters, of A. scorodoprasum subsp. scorodoprasum and subsp. rotundum grow in European Turkey show that they should be treated as different species and their names as had, till 1978, been A. scorodoprasum L. and A. rotundum L.. According to the results of the present work their main differences are summarized as follows: A. scorodoprasum; outer and inner tunics membranous, dark grey or reddish violet; bulblets ovoid-oblong, stalked spathe yellowish; umbel with bulbils and 0-20 flowered; pedicels almost equal. Cuticle of foliage leaves without micropapilla. Simple pits of parenchymatic cells absent, crystals cubic or prizmatic, simple or twin rarely compound, monohydrate or trihydrate;no sclerenchymatic fibres in bulb scales. Chromosome number 2n=16. A. rotundum; outer tunics coriaceaus, yellowish-brown, inner tunic membranous white or dark purple; bulblets in different shaped; spathe greenish-pink; umbel without bulbils, many flowered: pedicels unequal with bracteol. Cuticle of foliage leaves with micropapilla.
Keywords : COMPARATIVE, MORPHOLOGICAL, KARYOLOGICAL

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