Comparative fruit morphology and its systematic significance in Ferula (Apiaceae) species from different growth habitats

•Microstructure of the seeds surface and chemical components of Ferula L. species are not informative to be used in demarcation within the genus.•Information on Ferula L. seed morphometrics is useful to identify vulnerable species and understand evolutionary adaptation of the species to climate arid...

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Published in:	Flora. Morphologie, Geobotanik, Oekophysiologie Vol. 283; p. 151899
Main Authors:	Mustafina, Feruza U., Lee, Hayan, Sharipova, Vasila K., Lee, Andosung, Kim, Dae Wook, Choi, Mi Na, Jang, Jeong Won, Kim, Yeong-Su
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier GmbH 01-10-2021
Subjects:	Apiaceae Ferula Fruit anatomy Fruit morphology nrDNA ITS Systematics nrDNA ITS Fruit morphology Systematics Fruit anatomy Apiaceae Ferula
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Summary:	•Microstructure of the seeds surface and chemical components of Ferula L. species are not informative to be used in demarcation within the genus.•Information on Ferula L. seed morphometrics is useful to identify vulnerable species and understand evolutionary adaptation of the species to climate aridization.•Chromatogram fingerprint is unique for each studied species and can be used as quality control for plants collections which are used as a raw material in pharmaceutics. A comprehensive study was conducted on the fruits of 49 Ferula species, mostly from Central Asia, to describe the fruit surface microstructure and understand the systematic significance of this character for infrageneric delimitation. Ancestral states of the key morphometric characters were reconstructed via Mesquite, and distribution of informative characters at generic level was inferred using a Bayesian phylogenetic tree. In addition, chemical compound fingerprints for 21 Ferula species detected via HPLC-DAD were analysed with the COW algorithm in MATLAB 2019a, and optimised in a cladistic analysis, which showed incongruence with molecular data. This research aimed to define species groups within the economically important and taxonomically complex genus Ferula, and detected incongruence between the carpological, molecular and chemical data.
ISSN:	0367-2530 1618-0585
DOI:	10.1016/j.flora.2021.151899