Morphological and ultrastructural diversity of orbicules in relation to evolutionary tendencies in Apocynaceae s.l.

Annals of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 647-662

  Vinckier, Stefan ^a   Smets, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apocynaceae s.l.; Morphology; Orbicules; SEM; Systematics; Tapetum; TEM; Typology; Ubisch bodies; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOCYNACEAE; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN;

APOCYNACEAE; APOCYNOIDEAE; ASCLEPIADOIDEAE; LOGANIACEAE; PERIPLOCOIDEAE; RAUVOLFIOIDEAE; RIOCREUXIA; RUBIACEAE; SECAMONOIDEAE;

EID: 0036843798     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcf243     Document Type: Article

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