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Article Title: Colleters in 10 species belonging to three tribes of Rubiaceae: morphoanatomical diversity and potential as useful characters for taxonomy

 

Karina Lucas Barbosa Lopes-Mattos, Sara Akemi Ponce Otuki, Aristéa Alves Azevedo, Zefa Valdivina Pereira, and Renata Maria Strozi Alves Meira

 

Citation: Botany, 2015, 93(7): 425-434, 10.1139/cjb-2014-0212

 

Source: www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjb-2014-0212

 

Caption: Fig. 1. Colleters in Palicourea longepedunculata (A–B), Palicourea marcgravii (C–D), and Chiococca alba (E–F). (A, C, E) Overview of colleters under the stereomicroscope. (B, D) Cross sections and (F) longitudinal section of vegetative apical meristems. (A) Secretion (white arrow) produced by a senescent colleter showing a brownish color starting at the apex and extending towards the base (black arrows). (B, C) Standard (white arrows) and bifurcated standard (black arrows) colleters at the base of stipules. (D) Standard colleters distributed on the stipule adaxial surface (asterisks) and among leaf primordia (arrows). (E, F) Reduced standard colleters at stipule apex. Co, colleter; St, stipule; Lp, leaf primordium; Tr, trichomes). Scale bars = 1.5 mm (A); 700 µm (B); 1.2 mm (C); 400 µm (D); 1 mm (E); 200 µm (F).

 

 

Botany, NRC Research Press, a division of Canadian Science Publishing. www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/cjb

 

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