Abstract
A total of 112 species in 18 genera in thePortulacaceae were investigated anatomically for the presence or absence of the chlorenchymatous bundle sheath cells around the vascular bundles: C4 or Kranz anatomy. Twenty species in only one genus,Portulaca L. of all the taxa investigated possesses the C4 or Kranz anatomy. All others have the C3 anatomy.
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Nyananyo, B.L. Leaf anatomical studies in thePortulacaceae (Centrospermae) with regards to photosynthetic pathways. Folia geobot. phytotax. 23, 99–101 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02853300
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