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In comparing the floral vascular anatomy ofConvallaria majalis andC. keiskei a similar pattern of vasculature was shown. Both have pedicels with six (3 large +3 small) bundles which via radial division and fusion form the tepal, stamen and ovary traces. The outer tepal and outer stamen traces, the dorsals and placentals (i.e. ventral supply) arise from the larger three pedicel bundles, while the inner tepal and inner stamen traces and the septal axials arise from the smaller three. The dorsals, septal axials, and all of the stamen and tepal bundles are fusion products, while the placentals are free, though arising from compound bundles. The overy vasculature lacks both lateral peripherals and terminal cross-connections between the inner bundles and the outer dorsals. The placentation is only axile basally, since the three septa are freed at the mid-ovary level, and the resulting common, upper carpellary cavity is continuous with the hollow style. Normally four ovules are observed in each carpel, with the lower tier associated with the lower solid central axis, and the upper tier associated with the freed septa. The orientation of the ovules is varied (heterotropic). An internal system of stigmatoidal tissue is continuous from the base of each locule to the stigma, and involves micropylar associated obturators. Raphides characterize mature ovaries of both species, though both lack septal glands and septal grooves.
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This work was supported in part by the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program Grant GF-41367, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and Grant-in-Aid No. 934053 from the Ministry of Education, Japan.
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Utech, F.H., Kawano, S. Floral vascular anatomy ofConvallaria majalis L. andC. keiskei miq. (liliaceae-convallariinae). Bot. Mag. Tokyo 89, 173–182 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488340
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