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Plant Archives
DOI Url: https://doi.org/10.51470/PLANTARCHIVES.2021.v21.no1.015
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In this work, spore morphology of eight species, Tortula muralis, Tortula brevissima, Aloina brevirostris, Syntrichia
leavipila, Microbryum clavallianum (Pottiaceae); Funaria hygrometrica, Entosthodon muhlenbergii, Entosthodon attenuates
(Funariaceae); were examined by Light microscopy (LM) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). All spores are small;
the length of polar axis is between 7.5 μm and 18.5 μm, equatorial diameter is between 10.5 μm and 27 μm. The smallest
spores of them are Tortula brevissima and the biggest spores of them are Entosthodon attenuates. The shapes of the spores
are determined as suboblate for Tortula muralis, Aloina brevirostris, Syntrichia leavipila, and oblate for Tortula brevissima,
Funaria muhlenbergii, Funaria hygrometrica, Entosthodon attenuates. The ornamentation observed can be regulate,
verrucate- regulate, baculate, verrucate, clavate- foveolate, clavate, foveolate- psilate on the distal pole, spore ornamentation of
the proximal face is different or less complex than the distal face. We can concluded that the spore ultrastructure give important
role for identification and taxonomic significant.
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