Pollen micromorphology of eastern Chinese Polygonatum and its role in taxonomy by using scanning electron microscopy
Maroof Ali
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
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Anhui Academy of Science and Technology, Hefei, China
Search for more papers by this authorQi-Ping Xia
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
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Saraj Bahadur
College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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Saraj Bahadur, College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
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Jian-Wen Shao, College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
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Search for more papers by this authorAbrar Hussain
Centre of Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Jian-Wen Shao
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
Correspondence
Saraj Bahadur, College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
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Jian-Wen Shao, College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
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Search for more papers by this authorMuhammad Shuaib
School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Search for more papers by this authorMaroof Ali
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
Search for more papers by this authorYu-Jun Liu
Anhui Academy of Science and Technology, Hefei, China
Search for more papers by this authorQi-Ping Xia
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
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Saraj Bahadur
College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China
Correspondence
Saraj Bahadur, College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
Email: [email protected]
Jian-Wen Shao, College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAbrar Hussain
Centre of Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Jian-Wen Shao
College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China
Correspondence
Saraj Bahadur, College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
Email: [email protected]
Jian-Wen Shao, College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorMuhammad Shuaib
School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Search for more papers by this authorMaroof Ali and Yu-Jun Liu authors contributed equally to this work.
Review Editor: Paul Verkade
Funding information: China's National Basic Science and Technology Program, Grant/Award Number: 2019FY101810
Abstract
Although considerable progress has recently been made in the taxonomic study of Asparagaceae, but the Polygonatum remains one of the most poorly investigated genus. Therefore, the present study was designed with the aim, to document the pollen micromorphology of closely related Polygonatum taxa and its taxonomic significance. Pollen micro-morphological features were observed using scanning electron microscopy—SEM). The pollen grains are monad, navicular, monocolpate, and radially symmetrical. A significant variation was observed in the exine sculpturing. Moreover, most of the Polygonatum taxa have perforate pollen while some of them were mixed with psilate to perforate, perforate to microreticulate, sometimes scabrate, gemmate with baculate. Hence, this study documented the pollen morphology of Polygonatum taxa and strengthens the taxonomic identification of the genus Polygonatum based on pollen characters, which helps and can be used as an additional tool for the correct identification and discrimination of the species of Polygonatum at generic and species level.
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