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THE SEED ATLAS OF PAKISTAN-VI.
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
DURDANA KANWAL, RUBINA ABID AND M.QAISER*
Abstract:
Seed micro
morphological characters of 59 species, distributed in 21 genera of the
family Caryophyllaceae were studied using light and scanning electron
microscopy. There is a large variety of seed characters such as seeds
reniform, sub reniform and rarely elliptic pyriform, cuneate,
transversely cuneate, ovate, oblong, orbicular or sub orbicular, size
ranges from 0.4-3mm x 0.3-3mm. Seed morphological data is found to be
slightly significant for the tribal delimitation, while it strongly
supports the generic and specific delimitations in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
*Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi,
Pakistan.
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