Comparative Foliar Structure of Vicia L. Species from China - Journal of Biosciences and Medicines

JBM > Vol.5 No.3, March 2017

Comparative Foliar Structure of Vicia L. Species from China ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jbm.2017.53018 1,386 Downloads 2,314 Views Citations

Author(s)

Ann Abozeid^1,2, Yang Liu¹, Jia Liu¹, Zhonghua Tang¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
²Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Shebin El-koom, Egypt.

ABSTRACT

The genus Vicia L. includes about 190 species around the world and approximately 40 species in China. The genus includes minor food crops and forage plants. This study gives a detailed description of foliar structure of some Vicia species from China. Leaf characters showed considerable variation among studied taxa including petiole and tendril length; leaflets number, length, width, shape, apex, base; blade surface, trichome shape, type, base and length; stipules shape, base, length, width and surface. Numerical analysis of these characters was used to construct a phenogram illustrating the relationship between the studied taxa and to build an artificial key to identify Vicia species. Moreover, variation in leaf characters helped in overcoming the overlapping among harmful taxa.

KEYWORDS

Vicia, Fabaceae, Stipules, Trichomes, Numerical Taxonomy, Micro-Morphology

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Abozeid, A. , Liu, Y. , Liu, J. and Tang, Z. (2017) Comparative Foliar Structure of Vicia L. Species from China. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 5, 170-175. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2017.53018.

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