Floral structure and development in the dioecious Australian endemic Lomandra longifolia (Lomandraceae)

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作者
Ahmad, Nabil M. [1 ]
Martin, Peter M. [1 ]
Vella, John M. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Sydney, Plant Breeding Inst, Amen Hort Unit, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia
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10.1071/BT07223
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Q94 [植物学];
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071001 ;
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The micromorphology and histology of the development of male and female flowers of the dioecious Australian endemic species Lomandra longifolia Labill. was studied by means of scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy of entire and sectioned material. Although mature flowers are functionally unisexual, in the early stages of development pistillate and staminate flowers are identical and apparently bisexual. In a sequential fashion, six perianth parts are initiated within two alternating whorls, the sepals first and the petals second; six stamens are initiated in two alternating whorls of three stamens each, the first opposite the sepals and the second opposite the petals; and last, a central gynoecium is initiated. Following initiation, the two flower types diverge developmentally when the stamens become bilobed. In male flowers, cytological analysis of the slowly growing abortive pistil shows that megasporogenesis does not occur. Pistil abortion happens before meiosis whereas the stamens continue to develop until maturity and dehiscence. In female flowers, stamen arrest occurs before the onset of meiosis in microspore mother cells, after which the pistil continues its development through megasporogenesis and megagametogenesis. In all, 14 stages of. oral development of both male and female flowers have been designated. Stages 1-6 of the two flower types were common to both sexes.
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