A scanning electron microscope survey of the epidermis of East African grasses

Related Titles

Series: Smithsonian contributions to botany, no. 49, etc

By

Palmer, Patricia G.

Tucker, Alice E.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981-1988

Notes

Vol. 3 by Patricia G. Palmer, Susan Gerbeth-Jones, and Susan Hutchison.

Vol. 4-5 by Patricia G. Palmer and Susan Gerbeth-Jones.

Vol. 5 includes West African Supplement.

In developing a reference collection as a standard for using fossil grass cuticles as a paleoecological tool, we have examined leaf epidermal features of grasses with SEM. Anatomical structures are described, and a system of categorizing diagnostic features is proposed. Descriptions (abaxial and adaxial surfaces) of 24 East African species are presented comprising ten tribes: Bambuseae, Olyreae, Phareae, Streptogyneae, Oryzeae, Phyllorhachideae, Ehrharteae, Arundineae, Danthonieae, and Centosteceae.

Subjects

Africa, East , Anatomy , Atlases , Epidermis , Grasses , Leaves , Ultrastructure (Biology)

BHL Collections

Women in Natural History

Call Number

QK1 .S2747 no. 49, etc.

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.131623
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/80019201
OCLC: 6581357
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51406719