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New insights into pollen morphology and its implications in the phylogeny of Sanguisorba L. (Rosaceae; Sanguisorbeae)

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Pollen morphology of 13 species of the genus Sanguisorba (Rosaceae) was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. The pollen morphology divided the genus into two main groups: (A) tricolporate with tapered colpus tips, and (B) either tricolporate with opened colpus tip or hexacolporate. The former group was further subdivided into those without vestibulum (A1: S. alpina, S. dodecandra, and S. filiformis) and those with vestibulum (A2: S. agrimonoides, S. ancestroides, S. annua, S. cretica, S. minor, and S. verrucosa), whereas the latter group was subdivided into those with colpus narrow and similar to the A1 type (B1: S. canadensis and S. diandra), those with colpus and mesocolpus somewhat equally wide and forming hexacolporate aperture (B3: S. albiflora, S. armena, S. media, S. menziesii, S. parviflora, S. stipulata, and S. tenuifolia), and those with colpus intermediate between the B1 and B3 types (B2: S. hakusanensis, S. microcephala, S. obtusa, S. officinalis, S. polygama, and S. sitchensis). It is suggested that the A1 type aperture would have evolved to the A2 type as a specialized form and the B types (B1 to B3) in a direction in which the hexacolporate aperture was derived. Implications of pollen morphology for infrageneric classification of Sanguisorba are discussed and the results are compared with molecular phylogenetic studies.

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This paper represents partial fulfillment of an MS degree in Biological Education for the third author (J.C.), submitted at Sungkyunkwan University. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of the manuscript.

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    Sangtae Lee, Kyoung-in Heo, Juhee Cho & Seung-Chul Kim

  2. Korean National Arboretum, 51-7 Jikdongni, Soheur-eup, Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi Province, 487-821, South Korea

    Chunghee Lee

  3. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Wenli Chen

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Lee, S., Heo, Ki., Cho, J. et al. New insights into pollen morphology and its implications in the phylogeny of Sanguisorba L. (Rosaceae; Sanguisorbeae). Plant Syst Evol 291, 227–242 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-010-0384-0

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