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In vitro regeneration of Ensete ventricosum from zygotic embryos of stored seeds
M Diro, J van Staden
Abstract
Drimia acarophylla, a new, inconspicuous, dwarf species from the Albany Centre of Endemism in Eastern Cape, South Africa, is restricted to the Great Fish River
floodplain where it is found in small colonies on bare patches of blue-grey
pencil shale, where it is further camouflaged by the leaves resembling engorged
female blue ticks. It shows affinity to D. depressa (Bak.) Jessop, which
is known from the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland and
Northern Province, in their shared capitate inflorescence and spreading tepals
but is distinguished by its terete, succulent, clavate leaves with a cuticle
of densely packed, multifaceted, erect wax platelets. Upon fading the inner tepals
close first and their papillate apices fuse with the stigmatic papillae, the
stamens wilt and the anthers connive with the style just below the stigma.
South
African Journal of Botany 2003, 69: 364–369
floodplain where it is found in small colonies on bare patches of blue-grey
pencil shale, where it is further camouflaged by the leaves resembling engorged
female blue ticks. It shows affinity to D. depressa (Bak.) Jessop, which
is known from the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland and
Northern Province, in their shared capitate inflorescence and spreading tepals
but is distinguished by its terete, succulent, clavate leaves with a cuticle
of densely packed, multifaceted, erect wax platelets. Upon fading the inner tepals
close first and their papillate apices fuse with the stigmatic papillae, the
stamens wilt and the anthers connive with the style just below the stigma.
South
African Journal of Botany 2003, 69: 364–369
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South African Journal of Botany. ISSN: 0254-6299