Presented here is an alternative method of identification for species of the Neotropical palm genus Syagrus. It makes use of anatomical characters found in the leaflet margins and can be used for identification when few other vegetative or reproductive morphological characters are available. This anatomical study demonstrates the vast diversity found in a single palm genus and may also help to ...

THE GENUS Hesperomannia (Compositae, tribe Mutisieae) has attracted interest because of its arborescent habit, its restriction to certain of the Hawaiian Islands, and its rarity in the locations in which it is found. The purpose of the present paper is to survey the anatomical diversity which exists in the genus and relate it to gross morphological characters in an attempt to achieve an accepta...

The value of root and rhizome anatomy for the taxonomic characterisation of 59 species classified into 34 genera and 12 subtribes from the Asteraceae tribes Cardueae and Cichorieae was assessed. In addition, the evolutionary history of anatomical characters was reconstructed using a nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence-based phylogeny of the Cichorieae. Taxa were selected with a focus on pharmaceutic...

Caryophyllaceae is the fifth largest Iranian plant family in terms of number of species where most of its species are Irano-Turanian. About 30% of these species are endemic of Iran. There are continuously uncertainties regarding the circumscription of genera, and especially because of new molecular and phylogenetic studies that in many cases do not confirm the traditional generic circumscriptio...

Submitted: Jul 25, 2013; Accepted: Sep 4, 2013; Published: Sep 4, 2013 Abstract: The present study included anatomical studies of the stems and leaves of 7 cultivars of Ficus carica were investigated. The anatomical examination of the cross sections of the above mentioned stems and leaves revealed diagnostic characters among species. Data of comparative characters reached 14 couplet characters ...

Analyses of living and fossil taxa are crucial for understanding biodiversity through time. The total evidence method allows living and fossil taxa to be combined in phylogenies, using molecular data for living taxa and morphological data for living and fossil taxa. With this method, substantial overlap of coded anatomical characters among living and fossil taxa is vital for accurately inferrin...