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A PALYNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF ENDEMIC TAXA FROM NORTHERN CYPRUS

KEMAL YILDIZ^1,*, SALIH GÜCEL² AND MEHMET Y. DADANDI³

Abstract: Palynology of 19 endemic plant taxa belonging to 9 families distributed in North Cyprus was investigated by both light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The pollen grains were measured and their aperture characteristics and surface ornamentation determined. The systematic positions of the taxa as well as the genera they belonged to were investigated according to the data obtained. The largest pollen grains were found in Salvia veneris Hedge and the smallest ones in Onosma caespitosum Kotschy. The pollen type was generally termed trizonocolpate, pollen shapes spheroidal, prolate, subspheroidal, perprolate, supraprolate, pollen structure tectate and semitectate, and ornamentation scabrate, striate, microechinate, microperforate, reticulate, microreticulate, bireticulate, psilate and rugulate. 

¹Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye-Manisa, Turkey

²Near East University, Science Education Department, Lefkoşa (Nicosia)-North Cyprus,

³Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.