Anther development in tribe Epidendreae: orchids with contrasting pollination syndromes

Author:

Valencia-Nieto Benjamín1,Sosa Victoria2,Márquez-Guzmán Judith1

Affiliation:

1. Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México

2. Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología AC, Xalapa, Veracruz, México

Abstract

BackgroundEpidendreae is one of the most diverse tribes among the orchids with remarkable variation in life form, floral morphology and pollination syndromes. Its circumscription was recently revised and subtribes Agrostophyllinae and Calypsoinae were transferred into this tribe. One of the principal floral characters utilized in classification of orchids is the incumbency or bending of the column. This study records and compares late stages of anther, column and lip development, and discusses anther characters in fifteen representative taxa of five of the six subtribes in Epidendreae with respect to classification and pollination biology.MethodsA series of late floral stages were sampled and fixed for examination under scanning electron microscope.ResultsAnther incumbency or bending in this group varies from 90° to almost 180°. Incumbency in the late stages of development is reached in Bletiinae, Ponerinae, Pleurothallidinae and Laeliinae whereas incumbency is reached early in its development inCorallorhizaandGoveniaof Calypsoinae.DiscussionOur observations indicate that the position ofChysisin subtribe Bletiinae needs revision based on differences in a number floral, and in particular of anther characters; and thatCoeliaonly shares the early anther incumbency with Calypsoinae members, but not the rest of floral and anther characters. Anatomical characters such as crystals around the actinocytic stomata on the anther cap and sugar crystals in Laeliinae; lack of rostellum in Bletiinae; coalescent anther with the column, lack of trichomes and papillae on lip keels, and underdeveloped rostellum inChysis; a mechanism by which the anther cap comes off (it is joined with the grooved lip by a claw) inIsochilusare all related to pollination syndromes and reproductive biology.

Funder

“Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas”, Facultad de Ciencias, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

CONACyT

Publisher

PeerJ

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

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