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volume 53 issue 3 (june 2019) : 291-296,   Doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5119

Pollen morphology of 15 species in Commelinaceae (Commelinids: Angiosperms) from Andhra Pradesh, India

S
Sugali Salamma
J
Jangam Ganga Kailas
M
Mudavath Chennakesavulu Naik
B
Boyina Ravi Prasad Rao
H
Hari Ramakrishna Hari
1Biodiversity Conservation Division, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ananthapuramu-515 003, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Cite article:- Salamma Sugali, Kailas Ganga Jangam, Naik Chennakesavulu Mudavath, Rao Prasad Ravi Boyina, Hari Ramakrishna Hari (2019). Pollen morphology of 15 species in Commelinaceae (Commelinids: Angiosperms) from Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 53(3): 291-296. doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5119.

ABSTRACT

The present study deals with pollen morphology of fifteen species of Commelinaceae belonging to three genera: Commelina (6 species), Cyanotis (7 species) and Murdannia (2 species), collected from different localities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Species have shown diversity in size, shape and ornamentation, but all share a common feature; heteropolar and monosulcate apertural nature. While all the six species of Commelina have echinate ornamentation, four of them with prolate shape and two others have spheroidal shape. Seven species of Cyanotis have granular ornamentation and prolate in shape, except Cyanotis axillaris which is perprolate. Both the species of Murdannia have granular ornamentation; but differ in shape: prolate in M. nodiflora and perprolate in M. nimmoniana. These observations are of immense value in taxonomical, melissopalynological and aeropalynological studies.

REFERENCES

  1. Bhattacharya K, Majumdar MR, Gupta Bhattacharya S. (2009). A Text Book of Palynology. New Central Book Agency (P) Ltd. Kolkata: ISBN-81-7381- 500-3, Chapter 4, Pollen Morphology; p. 51–74.
  2. Brenan JPM. (1952). Notes on African Commelinaceae. Kew Bulletin 7: 179-208. 
  3. Brenan JPM. (1964). Notes on African Commelinaceae IV. Ballya, a new genus from East Africa. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 63-68. 
  4. Brenan JPM. (1966). The classification of Commelinaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 59: 349-370.
  5. ChennakesavuluNaik M, Ganga Kailas J, Salamma S, Devender R, Ramakrishana H, Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016). The non arboreal diversity of the Andaman Islands, India based on pollenanalysis.Palynology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2016. 1257517.
  6. Chikkannaiah PS. (1962). Morphological and embryological studies in Commelinaceae. Plant Embryology- A symposium. CSIR, New Delhi. 23-26.
  7. Dahl AO. (1946). Pollen morphology in the Commelianceae Reichenb. American Journal of Botany 33: 218.
  8. Devender R, Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H. (2016). Microscopinal analysis of Apis dorsata and Apis cerana Honeys from South Telangana State. Advances in Plant Sciences 29: 27-33.
  9. Devender R, Ramakrishna H, Prabhakar R, Padal SB. (2013). Pollen diversity of some medicinal plants from Araku Valley, Visakhapatnam    District, Andhra Pradesh. Advances in Plant Sciences 26: 457-462.
  10. Erdtman G. (1960). The acetolysis method a revised description. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. 54:561-564.
  11. Ganga Kailas J, Chennakesavulu Naik M, Bheemalingappa M, Ramakrishna H and Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016a). Arboreal diversity in the Andaman Islands, India based on pollen. Palynology. http://dx.doi.org 10.1080/01916122.2016.1209592
  12. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H and Prabhakar R. (2014b). Palynodiversity of Arborescent plants of Caesalpiniaceae family of Karimnagar district, Telangana state. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences 5(6) 349.
  13. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H and Prabhaker R. (2015a). Inaperturate pollen diversity in the arborescent taxa of Karimnagar district, Telangana State, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural research. 50 (4): 374-377. 
  14. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H, Prabhakar R. (2014a). Palynodiversity of Polyad Pollen (Mimosaceae) of Karimnagar district, Telangana State, India. Advances in plant sciences 27 (2): 505-509.
  15. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H, Seetharam D.S and Devender R. (2015b). Aeropalynological study of Rangaraopet village, karimnagar district, Telangana state, India. Ecology Environmental and Conservation 22 (3): 181-185.
  16. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H. Seetharam D.S (2016b). Diversity in syncolpate pollen taxa of Karimnagar district Telangana state India. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences 7(3): 771.
  17. Handlos WL. (1975). The Taxonomy of Tripogandra (Commeliniaceae). Rhodora 77: 213-319.
  18. Hunt DR. (1978). Three new genera in Commelinaceae.American Commelinaceae VI. Kew Bulletin 33(2): 331-334.
  19. Joseph, AV, Chandra Mohan Reddy N, Farida Tampal and Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016). Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Field Guide. Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board 978-194478763-9.
  20. Nandikar MD, Gurav RV. (2010). Critical studies on systematics of Murdannia lanuginosa (Wall.ExC.B.Clarke) Brueck (Commelinaceae).    Nature Proceedings. doi.org10.1038 /npre.2010.4619.2
  21. Pasarelli ML, Cortes M. (2017). Pollen as a Forensic tool in a zone of wetlands from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Journal of Forensic Research 8: 366. doi.org 10.4172/2157-7145.1000366.
  22. Ponnuchamy R, Bonhomme V, Prasad S, Das L, Patel P, Gaucherel C, et al. (2014). Honey Pollen: Using Melissopalynology to Understand Foraging Preferences of Bees in Tropical South India. PLoSONE 9(7): e101618. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.    0101618
  23. Poole MM, Hunt DR. (1980). Pollen Morphology and the Taxonomy of the Commelinaceae: An Exploratory Survey: American Commelinaceae: VIII. Kew Bulletin 34(4): 639-660.
  24. Punt W, Hoen PP, Blackmore S, Nilsson S, Le Thomas A. (2007). Glossary of pollen and spore terminology. Review of Palaeobotany Palynology 143:1–81.
  25. Ramakrishna H and Bhushan M. (2004). Diversity in pollen characterization of squeezed honey samples from Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Geophytology 34 (1 and2): 23-31.
  26. Ramakrishna H and Bhushan M. (2006). Nector and pollen supply of rock bees (Apis dorsata) from Sadashivanagar mandal of Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Geophytology 36 (1and2): 53:59.
  27. Ramakrishna H and Swathi S. (2013). Pollen diversity in Some Apisfloreahoney from Adilabad District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Geophytology 42(1): 11-20.
  28. Rowley JR and Dahl A. (1962). The aperture of the pollen grain in Commelinaceae. Pollen et Spores 4(2): 221-232.
  29. Rowley JR. (1959). The fine Structure of The pollen Wall in The Commelinaceae. Grana Palynologica 2: 3-31.
  30. Salamma S, Naik MC, Anil Kumar M, Sreenath A,Rao BRP. (2017). Four species of Commelinaceae, as additions to Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(6): 10340–10344; doi.org/10.11609/jot.3342.9.6.10340-10344
  31. Seema sultan, AnjumPereen,Qaiser M. (1994). Palynological study of Monocots from Karachi (excludinggraminae). Pakistan Journal of Botany 26 (1): 21-34.
  32. Seetharam D. S, Ramakrishna H, Ganga kailash J and Prabhakar R. (2015). Allergenic aerospora from the spider webs of Sanjeevaiah Park in Hyderabad City, Telangana Sate. Pollution Research Journal. 34 (4): 759-769.
  33. Sharma M. (1968). Pollen morphology of Indian monocotyledons. Journal of Palynology.1-96.
  34. Shilpa Singh, Ratankar, Khandelwal Asha. (2010). Impact of modern pollen rain studies from south and little Andaman Islands, India to interpret present and past vegetation. Current Science 99(9): 1251-1256.
  35. Vrinda SL. (1999). Biosystematic studies on a few genera of the Commelinaceae of South India. Ph. D. Thesis: Calicut University, India.
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    volume 53 issue 3 (june 2019) : 291-296,   Doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5119

    Pollen morphology of 15 species in Commelinaceae (Commelinids: Angiosperms) from Andhra Pradesh, India

    S
    Sugali Salamma
    J
    Jangam Ganga Kailas
    M
    Mudavath Chennakesavulu Naik
    B
    Boyina Ravi Prasad Rao
    H
    Hari Ramakrishna Hari
    1Biodiversity Conservation Division, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ananthapuramu-515 003, Andhra Pradesh, India.
    Cite article:- Salamma Sugali, Kailas Ganga Jangam, Naik Chennakesavulu Mudavath, Rao Prasad Ravi Boyina, Hari Ramakrishna Hari (2019). Pollen morphology of 15 species in Commelinaceae (Commelinids: Angiosperms) from Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 53(3): 291-296. doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5119.

    ABSTRACT

    The present study deals with pollen morphology of fifteen species of Commelinaceae belonging to three genera: Commelina (6 species), Cyanotis (7 species) and Murdannia (2 species), collected from different localities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Species have shown diversity in size, shape and ornamentation, but all share a common feature; heteropolar and monosulcate apertural nature. While all the six species of Commelina have echinate ornamentation, four of them with prolate shape and two others have spheroidal shape. Seven species of Cyanotis have granular ornamentation and prolate in shape, except Cyanotis axillaris which is perprolate. Both the species of Murdannia have granular ornamentation; but differ in shape: prolate in M. nodiflora and perprolate in M. nimmoniana. These observations are of immense value in taxonomical, melissopalynological and aeropalynological studies.

    REFERENCES

    1. Bhattacharya K, Majumdar MR, Gupta Bhattacharya S. (2009). A Text Book of Palynology. New Central Book Agency (P) Ltd. Kolkata: ISBN-81-7381- 500-3, Chapter 4, Pollen Morphology; p. 51–74.
    2. Brenan JPM. (1952). Notes on African Commelinaceae. Kew Bulletin 7: 179-208. 
    3. Brenan JPM. (1964). Notes on African Commelinaceae IV. Ballya, a new genus from East Africa. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 63-68. 
    4. Brenan JPM. (1966). The classification of Commelinaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 59: 349-370.
    5. ChennakesavuluNaik M, Ganga Kailas J, Salamma S, Devender R, Ramakrishana H, Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016). The non arboreal diversity of the Andaman Islands, India based on pollenanalysis.Palynology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2016. 1257517.
    6. Chikkannaiah PS. (1962). Morphological and embryological studies in Commelinaceae. Plant Embryology- A symposium. CSIR, New Delhi. 23-26.
    7. Dahl AO. (1946). Pollen morphology in the Commelianceae Reichenb. American Journal of Botany 33: 218.
    8. Devender R, Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H. (2016). Microscopinal analysis of Apis dorsata and Apis cerana Honeys from South Telangana State. Advances in Plant Sciences 29: 27-33.
    9. Devender R, Ramakrishna H, Prabhakar R, Padal SB. (2013). Pollen diversity of some medicinal plants from Araku Valley, Visakhapatnam    District, Andhra Pradesh. Advances in Plant Sciences 26: 457-462.
    10. Erdtman G. (1960). The acetolysis method a revised description. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. 54:561-564.
    11. Ganga Kailas J, Chennakesavulu Naik M, Bheemalingappa M, Ramakrishna H and Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016a). Arboreal diversity in the Andaman Islands, India based on pollen. Palynology. http://dx.doi.org 10.1080/01916122.2016.1209592
    12. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H and Prabhakar R. (2014b). Palynodiversity of Arborescent plants of Caesalpiniaceae family of Karimnagar district, Telangana state. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences 5(6) 349.
    13. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H and Prabhaker R. (2015a). Inaperturate pollen diversity in the arborescent taxa of Karimnagar district, Telangana State, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural research. 50 (4): 374-377. 
    14. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H, Prabhakar R. (2014a). Palynodiversity of Polyad Pollen (Mimosaceae) of Karimnagar district, Telangana State, India. Advances in plant sciences 27 (2): 505-509.
    15. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H, Seetharam D.S and Devender R. (2015b). Aeropalynological study of Rangaraopet village, karimnagar district, Telangana state, India. Ecology Environmental and Conservation 22 (3): 181-185.
    16. Ganga Kailas J, Ramakrishna H. Seetharam D.S (2016b). Diversity in syncolpate pollen taxa of Karimnagar district Telangana state India. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences 7(3): 771.
    17. Handlos WL. (1975). The Taxonomy of Tripogandra (Commeliniaceae). Rhodora 77: 213-319.
    18. Hunt DR. (1978). Three new genera in Commelinaceae.American Commelinaceae VI. Kew Bulletin 33(2): 331-334.
    19. Joseph, AV, Chandra Mohan Reddy N, Farida Tampal and Ravi Prasad Rao B. (2016). Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Field Guide. Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board 978-194478763-9.
    20. Nandikar MD, Gurav RV. (2010). Critical studies on systematics of Murdannia lanuginosa (Wall.ExC.B.Clarke) Brueck (Commelinaceae).    Nature Proceedings. doi.org10.1038 /npre.2010.4619.2
    21. Pasarelli ML, Cortes M. (2017). Pollen as a Forensic tool in a zone of wetlands from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Journal of Forensic Research 8: 366. doi.org 10.4172/2157-7145.1000366.
    22. Ponnuchamy R, Bonhomme V, Prasad S, Das L, Patel P, Gaucherel C, et al. (2014). Honey Pollen: Using Melissopalynology to Understand Foraging Preferences of Bees in Tropical South India. PLoSONE 9(7): e101618. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.    0101618
    23. Poole MM, Hunt DR. (1980). Pollen Morphology and the Taxonomy of the Commelinaceae: An Exploratory Survey: American Commelinaceae: VIII. Kew Bulletin 34(4): 639-660.
    24. Punt W, Hoen PP, Blackmore S, Nilsson S, Le Thomas A. (2007). Glossary of pollen and spore terminology. Review of Palaeobotany Palynology 143:1–81.
    25. Ramakrishna H and Bhushan M. (2004). Diversity in pollen characterization of squeezed honey samples from Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Geophytology 34 (1 and2): 23-31.
    26. Ramakrishna H and Bhushan M. (2006). Nector and pollen supply of rock bees (Apis dorsata) from Sadashivanagar mandal of Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Geophytology 36 (1and2): 53:59.
    27. Ramakrishna H and Swathi S. (2013). Pollen diversity in Some Apisfloreahoney from Adilabad District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Geophytology 42(1): 11-20.
    28. Rowley JR and Dahl A. (1962). The aperture of the pollen grain in Commelinaceae. Pollen et Spores 4(2): 221-232.
    29. Rowley JR. (1959). The fine Structure of The pollen Wall in The Commelinaceae. Grana Palynologica 2: 3-31.
    30. Salamma S, Naik MC, Anil Kumar M, Sreenath A,Rao BRP. (2017). Four species of Commelinaceae, as additions to Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(6): 10340–10344; doi.org/10.11609/jot.3342.9.6.10340-10344
    31. Seema sultan, AnjumPereen,Qaiser M. (1994). Palynological study of Monocots from Karachi (excludinggraminae). Pakistan Journal of Botany 26 (1): 21-34.
    32. Seetharam D. S, Ramakrishna H, Ganga kailash J and Prabhakar R. (2015). Allergenic aerospora from the spider webs of Sanjeevaiah Park in Hyderabad City, Telangana Sate. Pollution Research Journal. 34 (4): 759-769.
    33. Sharma M. (1968). Pollen morphology of Indian monocotyledons. Journal of Palynology.1-96.
    34. Shilpa Singh, Ratankar, Khandelwal Asha. (2010). Impact of modern pollen rain studies from south and little Andaman Islands, India to interpret present and past vegetation. Current Science 99(9): 1251-1256.
    35. Vrinda SL. (1999). Biosystematic studies on a few genera of the Commelinaceae of South India. Ph. D. Thesis: Calicut University, India.
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