Recognizing the species of Thuja (Cupressaceae) based on their cone and foliage morphology.

Autor(en)
Bin Sun, Yi-Ming Cui, Hai-Feng Wang, David-Kay Ferguson, Qiao-Ping Xiang, Qing-Wen Ma, Yu-Fei Wang
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Paläontologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Museum of Natural History
Journal
Phytotaxa
Band
219
Seiten
101-117
Anzahl der Seiten
17
ISSN
1179-3155
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.219.2.1
Publikationsdatum
07-2015
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105117 Paläobotanik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/recognizing-the-species-of-thuja-cupressaceae-based-on-their-cone-and-foliage-morphology(6847425e-b0be-475b-8c1a-94827813405a).html