Recognizing the species of Thuja (Cupressaceae) based on their cone and foliage morphology.
- Author(s)
- Bin Sun, Yi-Ming Cui, Hai-Feng Wang, David-Kay Ferguson, Qiao-Ping Xiang, Qing-Wen Ma, Yu-Fei Wang
- Abstract
Thuja, with 5 extant species, exhibiting a disjunctive distribution between East Asia (3 species) and North America (2 species), was investigated with respect to the morphological characters of foliage and cones by LM and SEM. Here we provide 2 keys to all 5 species of Thuja based on the cones and foliage respectively, which not only can be used for identifying extant Thuja at the species level, but also have a great potential for recognizing and/or linking the fossil species to living ones, and further tracing the evolutionary history of the genus.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Museum of Natural History
- Journal
- Phytotaxa
- Volume
- 219
- Pages
- 101-117
- No. of pages
- 17
- ISSN
- 1179-3155
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.219.2.1
- Publication date
- 07-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105117 Palaeobotany
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/recognizing-the-species-of-thuja-cupressaceae-based-on-their-cone-and-foliage-morphology(6847425e-b0be-475b-8c1a-94827813405a).html