Pollen morphology of Carthamus L. species in Anatolian flora

• Published in: Plant systematics and evolution Vol. 299; no. 3; pp. 683 - 689
• Main Authors: Bülbül, Ali Savaş, Tarıkahya-Hacıoğlu, Burcu, Arslan, Yusuf, Subaşı, İlhan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer-Verlag 01-03-2013; Springer; Springer Vienna; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Biological taxonomies; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carthamus; Flora; Grains; Introduced species; Life Sciences; Morphology; Original Article; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Plant taxonomy; Plants; Pollen; Roadside; scanning electron microscopes; Scanning electron microscopy; Species; Symmetry; Taxa; LM; SEM; Pollen morphology
• ISSN: 0378-2697; 1615-6110; 2199-6881
• DOI: 10.1007/s00606-012-0753-y

In flora of Turkey, there are six species of Carthamus L: Carthamus dentatus (Forssk.) Vahl., C. glaucus M. Bieb. subsp. glaucus, C. lanatus L., C. tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm., C. persicus Desf. ex Willd. and C. tinctorius L. Within these species, C. tinctorius L. is an alien species for the Turkish flora. The pollen grains belonging to six taxa collected from different locations of Anatolia and examined both under light microscope (LM) and under scanning electron microscope (SEM). As a result of these examinations and measurements, pollen grains of taxa are radially symmetrical, isopolar, oblate-spheroid, spheroid, tricolporate rarely tetracolporate, echinate. There are high similarities among taxa but some differences are recorded in size and spin length. According to cluster analyses of Carthamus species’ pollens, C. glaucus and C. tenuis have the most similar pollens. C. dentatus grouped with these two. C. persicus placed as the closest relative of C. tinctorius in the dendrogram.