PJB-2019-822
THE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES OF THE GENUS IBERIS L. IN TURKEY: VEGETATIVE ORGANS CASE
Burcu Yılmaz Çıtak
Abstract
The present study was designed to analyse the anatomy of the vegetative organs of Turkish Iberis species from a systematic point of view. Samples of leaves, stems, and roots of each species were collected, fixed, and processed according to the paraffin method for light microscopy. The numerical analysis derived from 11 anatomical characteristics showed that the number and dimensions of vessels in the root, presence of aerenchyma in the leaf, number and dimensions of palisade parenchyma, and mesophyll type were essential for grouping the Iberis taxa. In this study, the traditional classification of Turkish Iberis species was mainly congruent in the obtained dendrogram based on vegetative anatomical properties.
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