Leaf anatomy of Acrocomia (Arecaceae): an additional contribution to the taxonomic resolution of a genus with great economic potential

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• 作者：Suelen A. Vianna ; Sandra M. Carmelo-Guerreiro…
• 关键词：Arecoideae ; Bactridinae ; Belly palm ; Bocaiúva ; Macaíba ; Macaúba
• 刊名：Plant Systematics and Evolution
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：303
• 期：2
• 页码：233-248
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Plant Sciences; Plant Ecology; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography;
• 出版者：Springer Vienna
• ISSN：2199-6881
• 卷排序：303

文摘

Acrocomia is one of the most complex genera to understand in the Neotropical Arecaceae, and there is no consensus on the number of species in the genus. A comparative study of leaf anatomy was conducted on seven species of Acrocomia: one with a wide distribution in the Americas (A. aculeata), five endemic to different regions of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay (A. emensis, A. glaucescens, A. hassleri, A. intumescens and A. totai) and one endemic to Cuba (A. crispa). Characters that unify the species of Acrocomia include the following: epidermis covered with cuticle, hypodermis on both sides of the leaflets, non-vascular fiber bundles, and primary and secondary vascular bundles. The shape of the leaflet margin, the distribution of the primary vascular bundles and fiber bundles, the number of idioblasts with raphides and the size of the vascular bundles, along with other characteristics, were used to distinguish these species in Acrocomia.