Seed surface characters and their systematic significance in the genus Lathyrus (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Vicieae)

Intraspecific variation in seed morphology of tribe vicieae (Papilionoidae) using scanning electron microscopy techniques

“…Similarly papillose ornamentation pattern was recorded for L. culinaris , P. sativum , and Vicia except V. narbonensis as described earlier in studies of Lersten (); Butler (); Lersten and Gunn (). In the study of Abou‐El‐Enain, Loufty, and Shehata (), about nine multi‐cellular sculpturing patterns and three secondary ornamentation patterns were depicted in genus Lathyrus . The present results corroborates with their study having slight variations in sculpturing type.…”

“…Brisson and Peterson () stated that seed coat parameters might play very vital role in the identification of species in combination with two important factors; variation in the population belonging to different ecological regions and random genetic versatility amongst populations. Likewise, several other investigations have depicted seed morphological and testa structure features in family Fabaceae and reported that these characters were significantly important in taxonomy for differentiating related taxa (Abou‐El‐Enain, Loufty, & Shehata, ; Al‐Ghamdi & Al‐Zahrani, ; Chernoff, Plitmann, & Kislev, ; Kislev & Hopf, ; Lersten & Gunn, ; Vural, Ekici, Akan, & Aytac, ). Lersten & Gunn () investigated the seed surface and hilum characteristics of 100 plant species belonging to four genera of tribe Vicieae .…”

Micromorphological studies on the genus Lotus L. (Fabaceae: Loteae) from Egypt

“…Among the notable contributions dealing with the seed coat surface are those of Ponomarenko et al (1990) on species of the genus Cassia, Chernoff et al (1992) on species of Vicieae, Abou-El-Enain and Loutfy (1999) on the genus Sesbania Scop., Zareh (2005) on six species of Hippocrepis L., Abou-El-Enain et al (2007) on the genus Lathyrus, and Zorić et al (2010) on 38 species of the genus Trifolium L. Recently Mirzaei et al (2015) and Erkul et al (2015) published works on the genera Colutea and Oxytropis, respectively.…”

Taxonomic Implications of Seed Morphology and Seed Protein Electrophoresis of Some Egyptian Taxa of the Mimosoideae-Leguminosae.

“…The areole shape was linear oblong in Acacia saligna, oblong in Albizia julibrissin and A. lebbeck, ovaloblong in Acacia tortilis, Enterolobium contortisiliquum and E. cyclocarpum; broad oval in Acacia nilotica and Dichrostachys cinerea and oval in the remaining seven taxa ( Table 2). The testa sculpturing patterns observed under SEM were clearly variable among the taxa investigated (Table 2 and The seed morphological characteristics such as shape, colour, size and areole shape; if present, in combination with the testa sculpturing peculiarities observed under SEM had been found very useful in delimitation and identification of genera and species within family Leguminosae (Hussein et al, 2002 a, b;Taia, 2004;Abou-El-Enain et al, 2007 andAl-Gohary &Mohamed, 2007). Hussein et al (2012) stated that diversity in the characteristics of the micropyle, hilum, and lens of seeds of Mimosoideae, when observed under SEM, offer indispensable criteria for separation primarily at the species level and sometimes at the subspecies level as well as very rarely at the rank of genus.…”