In vitro regeneration of Ensete ventricosum from zygotic embryos of stored seeds

Diro, M; Van Staden, J

In vitro regeneration of Ensete ventricosum from zygotic embryos of stored seeds

2004

Diro, M | Van Staden, J

Drimia acarophylla, a new, inconspicuous, dwarf species from the Albany Centre of Endemism in Eastern Cape, South Africa, is restricted to the Great Fish Riverfloodplain where it is found in small colonies on bare patches of blue-greypencil shale, where it is further camouflaged by the leaves resembling engorgedfemale blue ticks. It shows affinity to D. depressa (Bak.) Jessop, whichis known from the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland andNorthern Province, in their shared capitate inflorescence and spreading tepalsbut is distinguished by its terete, succulent, clavate leaves with a cuticleof densely packed, multifaceted, erect wax platelets. Upon fading the inner tepalsclose first and their papillate apices fuse with the stigmatic papillae, thestamens wilt and the anthers connive with the style just below the stigma.SouthAfrican Journal of Botany 2003, 69: 364–369

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