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Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae

Aya Tarek Baiomy, Alsafa Hassan Mohamed, Mariam Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Elsayed Tantawy, Mohamed Abd elfattah Salim.

Abstract
The Chen-Am alliance is of worldwide distribution, comprising approximately 169 genera and 2,400 species. The pollen grains of 35 taxa (29 belonging to Chenopodiaceae and six to Amaranthaceae) were collected and investigated using LM & SEM. The main target is to throw light on pollen morphological characters as well as to estimate the implication of the pollen criteria in clarifying the relationships between the studied taxa. The obtained pollen data viz. pollen exine sculpture, number & diameter of pores, inter-poral distance as well as the number and shapes of ektexinous bodies were considered diagnostic at the specific level. Based on the palynological data an artificial key and a dendrogram were constructed to interpret the relationships between the taxa under investigation. The pollen grains of studied taxa of Amaranthaceae are grouped under four types while that of Chenopodiaceae are grouped into six types. Based on pollen data the studied taxa were nested within each other and this is reinforced the treatment of Amaranthaceae and Chenopodiaceae as one distinct taxonomic entity.

Key words: Amaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Pollen morphology, Stenopalynous.


 
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Baiomy AT, Mohamed AH, Hussein MI, Tantawy ME, Salim MAe. Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. Egypt. J. Exp. Biol. (Bot.). 2020; 16(1): 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510


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Baiomy AT, Mohamed AH, Hussein MI, Tantawy ME, Salim MAe. Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. https://www.egyseb.net//?mno=94408 [Access: December 05, 2023]. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510


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Baiomy AT, Mohamed AH, Hussein MI, Tantawy ME, Salim MAe. Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. Egypt. J. Exp. Biol. (Bot.). 2020; 16(1): 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



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Baiomy AT, Mohamed AH, Hussein MI, Tantawy ME, Salim MAe. Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. Egypt. J. Exp. Biol. (Bot.). (2020), [cited December 05, 2023]; 16(1): 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



Harvard Style

Baiomy, A. T., Mohamed, . A. H., Hussein, . M. I., Tantawy, . M. E. & Salim, . M. A. e. (2020) Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. Egypt. J. Exp. Biol. (Bot.), 16 (1), 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



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Baiomy, Aya Tarek, Alsafa Hassan Mohamed, Mariam Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Elsayed Tantawy, and Mohamed Abd elfattah Salim. 2020. Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Botany), 16 (1), 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



Chicago Style

Baiomy, Aya Tarek, Alsafa Hassan Mohamed, Mariam Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Elsayed Tantawy, and Mohamed Abd elfattah Salim. "Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae." THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Botany) 16 (2020), 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style

Baiomy, Aya Tarek, Alsafa Hassan Mohamed, Mariam Ibrahim Hussein, Mohamed Elsayed Tantawy, and Mohamed Abd elfattah Salim. "Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae." THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Botany) 16.1 (2020), 49-58. Print. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510



APA (American Psychological Association) Style

Baiomy, A. T., Mohamed, . A. H., Hussein, . M. I., Tantawy, . M. E. & Salim, . M. A. e. (2020) Pollen criteria as a taxonomic tool to clarify the relationships between some taxa of Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Botany), 16 (1), 49-58. doi:10.5455/egyjebb.20200322081510