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Turkish Journal of Botany

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This article has been revised, and an Erratum has been issued to address errors in the original manuscript. For details, please refer to the published Erratum.

Abstract

Anatomical (scape, pedicel, leaf lamina, and leaf midrib) and pollen morphological features of 11 taxa belonging to the genus Primula subgen. Primula (P. vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, P. vulgaris subsp. rubra, and P.megaseifolia, P. meyeri,P. elatior subsp. pallasii, P. pseudoelatior, P. veris subsp. columnae, P. veris subsp. macrocalyx) and subgen. Aleurita (P. longipes, P. algida and P. auriculata) were examined using light and scanning electron microscopy to shed light on the existing taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships. The anatomical and palynological features of the majority of the taxa studied were revealed for the first time in this study. In anatomical studies, the very large intercellular space under the epidermis and the number of sclerenchyma layers in the scape anatomy and the midrib shape in the leaf lamina anatomy were found to be of taxonomic importance in the subgenus level. In palynological studies, pollen grains size, pollen surface ornamentation pattern and pollen aperture types could be used as important characters to distinguish species, sections and subgenera. Significant differences were found between subgenera and between the pollen grains of pin and thrum flowers of the same taxon. Mostly, the subgen. Aleurita taxa were significantly smaller pollen grains than the subgen. Primula taxa, and pollen grains from flowers with pin morphology was smaller than from flowers with thrum morphology. Our studies showed that both anatomical and palynological features have not only taxonomic but also phylogenetic importance.

Author ORCID Identifier

DENİZ ULUKUŞ: 0000-0002-9627-5492

ESENGÜL ÖZKAYMAKOĞLU: 0000-0003-2056-5204

REBECCA STUBBS: 0000-0001-7386-2830

HÜSEYİN BAYKAL: 0000-0001-6428-6915

KAMİL COŞKUNÇELEBİ: 0000-0001-5713-6628

OSMAN TUGAY: 0000-0003-3980-7648

BARBARA KELLER: 0000-0002-7903-8938

ELENA CONTI: 0000-0003-1880-2071

FERHAT CELEP: 0000-0003-3280-8373

DOI

10.55730/1300-008X.2866

Keywords

anatomy, phylogeny, pollen, Primula, taxonomy

First Page

325

Last Page

348

Publisher

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)

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