Original Research

Embryo sac development in some representatives of the tribe Cynodonteae (Poaceae)

A. Strydom, J. J. Spies
Bothalia | Vol 24, No 1 | a758 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v24i1.758 | © 1994 A. Strydom, J. J. Spies | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 09 October 1994 | Published: 10 October 1994

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A. Strydom, Department of Botany and Genetics, University of the Orange Free State, South Africa
J. J. Spies, Department of Botany and Genetics, University of the Orange Free State, South Africa

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Abstract

Chloris virgata Sw., Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Harpochloa falx (L. f.) Kuntze, and Tragus berteronianus Schult. have a Polygonum type of embryo sac development. Unreduced embryo sacs were found in Eustachys paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei,  Harpochloa falx, and  Rendlia altera (Rendle) Chiov. Both facultative and obligate apomixis were observed. The Hieracium type of embryo sac development was observed in the aposporic specimens.


Keywords

apomixis; apospory; Chloridoideae; Cynodonteae; embryo sac development; Poaceae

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