期刊
SYMMETRY-BASEL
卷 14, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/sym14071288
关键词
axillary branching; Ceratophyllales; Ceratophyllum; Chloranthales; evolution; flower; inflorescence; leaf; serial buds; shoot apical meristem
资金
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [18-04-00797]
- Lomonosov Moscow State University [121032500084-6]
Ceratophyllum is an ancient and phylogenetically isolated angiosperm lineage. The shoot morphology and branching patterns in Ceratophyllum have been clarified using scanning electron microscopy. Each leaf axil of Ceratophyllum possesses a complex of two serial buds, with the lower one producing a vegetative branch and the upper one developing a reproductive unit. The reproductive unit is congenitally displaced to the subsequent node, and this phenomenon is known as concaulescence. The closest extant relatives of Ceratophyllum are believed to be Chloranthaceae, particularly Hedyosmum, which also exhibit serial buds and concaulescence.
Ceratophyllum is an ancient and phylogenetically isolated angiosperm lineage. Comparisons between Ceratophyllum and other angiosperms are hampered by uncertainty in inferring organ homologies in this genus of specialized aquatics. Interpretation of shoot morphology is especially problematic in Ceratophyllum. Each node has several leaf-like appendages interpreted as verticillate leaves, modified parts of one and the same leaf or parts of two leaves under decussate phyllotaxis. Vegetative branches are axillary, but reproductive units (interpreted as flowers or inflorescences) are commonly viewed as developing from collateral accessory buds. We studied shoot development in Ceratophyllum submersum, C. tanaiticum, and C. demersum using scanning electron microscopy to clarify shoot morphology and branching patterns. Our data support the idea that the phyllotaxis is essentially decussate with appendages of stipular origin resembling leaf blades. We conclude that a leaf axil of Ceratophyllum possesses a complex of two serial buds, the lower one producing a vegetative branch and the upper one developing a reproductive unit. The reproductive unit is congenitally displaced to the subsequent node, a phenomenon known as concaulescence. Either member of the serial bud complex may be absent. There is a theory based on a synthesis of molecular and morphological data that Chloranthaceae are the closest extant relatives of Ceratophyllum. Serial buds and concaulescence are known in Hedyosmum (Chloranthaceae). Our new interpretation facilitates morphological comparisons between Hedyosmum and Ceratophyllum.
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