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Flora and Vegetation of Asian Russia

2011 year, number 1

MORPHOLOGY OF FRUITS AND SCULPTURE OF MERICARP SURFACE OF THE GENUS GALIUM (RUBIACEAE)

E.A. Balde
Central Siberian Botanical Garden, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya str., 101
e-mail: baldk21@ngs.ru
Keywords: Rubiaceae, Galium, section Leptogalium, Trachygalium, Depauperata, fruits, mericarp, sculpture of surface

Abstract

Th e results of detailed SEM study of mericarp morphology and surface of 7 species of the sections Leptogalium, Trachygalium and Depauperata оf the genus Galium (Rubiaceae) are presented. Th ree types of the mericarp surface: nipple-shaped, netted, hooked-netted have been singled out. It was concluded that characters of fruit morphology are able to use for elucidation of the relationships in the genus Galium.