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Wood Anatomy Of Caryophyllaceae: Ecological, Habital, Systematic, And Phylogenetic Implications, Sherwin Carlquist Jan 1995

Wood Anatomy Of Caryophyllaceae: Ecological, Habital, Systematic, And Phylogenetic Implications, Sherwin Carlquist

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Wood of Caryophyllaceae is more diverse than has been appreciated. Imperforate tracheary elements may be tracheids, fiber-tracheids, or libriform fibers. Rays may be uniseriate only, multiseriate only, or absent. Roots of some species (and sterns of a few of those same genera) have vascular tissue produced by successive cambia. The diversity in wood anatomy character states shows a range from primitive to specialized so great that origin close to one of the more specialized families of Chenopodiales, such as Chenopodiaceae or Amaranthaceae, is unlikely. Caryophyllaceae probably branched from the ordinal clade near the clade's base, as cladistic evidence suggests. Raylessness …


Trichomes Of Nama (Hydrophyllaceae) That Produce Insect-Active Compunds, Bradley F. Binder Jan 1995

Trichomes Of Nama (Hydrophyllaceae) That Produce Insect-Active Compunds, Bradley F. Binder

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Nama hispidum, N. lobbii, N. rothrockii, and N. xylopodum have two basic types of trichomes on the adaxial and abaxial surfaces: glandular and nonglandular. Nama hispidum and N. xylopodum have (1) short semierect or intermediate-length acicular trichomes that often recurve toward the leaf surface and (2) short-stalked capitate glands. The larger acicular trichomes have micropapillae. Nama lobbii has long filiform trichomes and sessile capitate glands. Nama rothrockii has erect, smooth subulate trichomes and long-stalked capitate glands. Morphological diversity of trichomes in Nama and their possible functional significance as a predator defense are discussed.


Plants Of The Tres Marias Islands, Nayarit, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1995

Plants Of The Tres Marias Islands, Nayarit, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


A New Species Of Hechita (Bromeliaceae, Pitcairnoideae) From The Cape Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1995

A New Species Of Hechita (Bromeliaceae, Pitcairnoideae) From The Cape Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Hechtia gayii is described and illustrated and its relationship to other members of the genus is discussed.


A New Combination In The Cactaceae Of Baja California, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1995

A New Combination In The Cactaceae Of Baja California, Mexico, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Corylophomyces, A New Dioecious Genus Of Laboulbeniales On Corylophidae (Coleoptera), Richard K. Benjamin Jan 1995

Corylophomyces, A New Dioecious Genus Of Laboulbeniales On Corylophidae (Coleoptera), Richard K. Benjamin

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

A new dioecious genus of Laboulbeniaceae (Laboulbeniales), Corylophomyces, was established to accommodate five species parasitizing Corylophidae (Coleoptera; Cucujoidea): C. peyerimhoffii (≡Cryptandromyces peyerimhoffit); C. sericoderi (≡Autophagomyces sericoderi); C. sarawakensis (≡A. sarawakensis); and two new species, C. reflexus and C. weirii. A key to the taxa was given and all were illustrated with line drawings. Corylophomyces was placed in Amorphomycetinae sensu Tavares. The other genera included in this subtribe by Tavares in 1985, i.e., Amorphomyces, Dioicomyces, Nanomyces, Rhizopodomyces, and Tetrandromyces, were compared with one another and with the new genus.


Wood And Bark Anatomy Of Ranunculaceae (Including Hydrastis) And Glaucidiaceae, Sherwin Carlquist Jan 1995

Wood And Bark Anatomy Of Ranunculaceae (Including Hydrastis) And Glaucidiaceae, Sherwin Carlquist

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Wood anatomy of 14 species of Clematis and one species each of Delphinium, Helleborus, Thalictrum, and Xanthorhiza (Ranunculaceae) is compared to that of Glaucidium palma tum (Glaucidiaceae) and Hydrastis canadensis (Ranunculaceae, or Hydrastidaceae of some authors). Clematis wood has features typical of wood of vines and lianas: wide (earlywood) vessels, abundant axial parenchyma (earlywood, some species), high vessel density, low proportion of fibrous tissue in wood, wide rays composed of thin-walled cells, and abrupt origin of multiseriate rays. Superimposed on these features are expressions indicative of xeromorphy in the species of cold or dry areas: numerous narrow latewood vessels, presence …


Vascular Flora Of The San Mateo Canyon Wilderness Area, Cleveland National Forest, California, Steve Boyd, Timothy S. Ross, Orlando Mistreta, David Bramlet Jan 1995

Vascular Flora Of The San Mateo Canyon Wilderness Area, Cleveland National Forest, California, Steve Boyd, Timothy S. Ross, Orlando Mistreta, David Bramlet

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The Santa Ana Mountains, as a whole, have been well-studied floristically. Little work, however, has been conducted previously in the southwestern portion of the range which includes the San Mateo Canyon Wilderness Area of the Cleveland National Forest. This study reports the results of our floristic surveys conducted in the wilderness over a three-year period, from December 1991 through October 1994. The study area, encompassing the headwaters of the San Mateo Canyon watershed, is topographically and geologically diverse. Vegetation is characterized by a complex assemblage of chaparral and coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, native and nonnative grasslands, and riparian woodland …


Additions To The Vascular Flora Of The Santa Ana Mountains, California, Steve Boyd, Timothy S. Ross, Fred M. Roberts Jr. Jan 1995

Additions To The Vascular Flora Of The Santa Ana Mountains, California, Steve Boyd, Timothy S. Ross, Fred M. Roberts Jr.

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The Santa Ana Mountains, part of the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, have been welldocumented floristically. Nevertheless, since publication of a preliminary vascular flora for the range in 1978, a significant number of additions have been reported. These are principally from studies of two subregions in the southern portion of the range and include 42 taxa from the Santa Rosa Plateau and 88 taxa from the San Mateo Canyon Wilderness Area. Documentation is provided here for an additional 66 taxa not included in other published floristic accounts of the Santa Ana Mountains. A voucher specimen and generalized distribution information are …


New Fungi From Dasylirion (Agavaceae), Annette W. Ramaley Jan 1995

New Fungi From Dasylirion (Agavaceae), Annette W. Ramaley

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Dead leaves of Dasylirion were collected in Texas in Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Big Bend National Park, and in the Valley of Fires, New Mexico. The fungi present were identified and grown in culture to identify teleomorph-anamorph connections. Four new ascomycete species are described—Graphyllium dasylirionis, Splanchnonema dasylirionis, Chaetoplea dasylirionis, and Chaetoplea sotolifoliorum. In addition, a new genus, Parahendersonia, is described to accommodate the coelomycete anamorph of Chaetoplea dasylirionis.


Four New Species Of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) From Northern South America, Gerald A. Wheeler, Paul Goetchebeur Jan 1995

Four New Species Of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) From Northern South America, Gerald A. Wheeler, Paul Goetchebeur

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Four new species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae) are described from northern South America. Three of them, U. lacustris, U. paludosa, and U. tenuifolia, belong in sect. Platyandrae; the fourth, U. subsacculata, belongs in sect. Uncinia. Three of the new species are known only from Ecuador, whereas U. paludosa has also been collected in Colombia.


Wood Anatomy Of Berberidaceae: Ecological And Phylogenetic Considerations, Sherwin Carlquist Jan 1995

Wood Anatomy Of Berberidaceae: Ecological And Phylogenetic Considerations, Sherwin Carlquist

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Qualitative and quantitative data are presented for 21 collections of Berberis and one each of Epimedium, Jeffersonia, and Nandina. Most species of Berberis have large numbers of narrow vessels ~ixed with vasicentric tracheids. Scalariform perforation plates are reported here only for Epimedium, m wh1ch they are occasional. Berberidaceae have living fibers (Berberis), fiber-tracheids plus living fibers (Nandina), or tracheids (Jeffersonia) as imperforate tracheary elements. Axial parenchyma is reported here for Jeffersonia and one species of Berberis. Previous reports of axial parenchyma in Berberis and Nandina likely refer to undivided living fibers, mostly intermixed with vessels, which are slightly shorter and …