Alchemilla L.
Creators: name: Shokatyari, Samira
name: Faghir, Marzieh Beygom
name: Kazempour-Osaloo, Shahrokh
name: Sohani, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Alchemilla

description: IDENTIFICATION KEY OF THE SPECIES OF ALCHEMILLA L. BASED ON THE ACHENE MICROMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS
1. Achene sculpturing colliculate or ruminate foveate-tuberculate (with rugose, folding or papillae); anticlinal wall depressed and outer periclinal layer raised ................................................................................................... 2
— Achene sculpturing, reticulate falsifoveate with papillae, reticulate-foveate, reticulate-alveolate, ruminate reticulate-foveate-tuberculate, ruminate foveate-tuberculate, ruminate reticulate-tuberculate-lineolate; anticlinal wall raised-oblate and raised and outer periclinal layer depressed ...................................................................... 14
2. Hilum position subbasal .............................................................................................................................. 3
— Hilum position basal and subbasal-lateral .................................................................................................... 9
3. Apex acute and acute curved ....................................................................................................................... 4
— Apex blunt acuminate ................................................................................................................................. 6
4. Apex acute ................................................................................................................................................... 5
— Apex acute curved ......................................................................................................... A. valdehirsuta Buser
5. Achene shape ovoid, epidermal cell shape long polygonal irregular ............................... A. sedelmeyeriana Juz.
— Achene shape broadly ovate, epidermal cell shape polygonal irregular ....................... A. condensa S.E.Fröhner
6. Achene sculpturing ruminate foaveat-tuberculate ........................................................ A. citrina S.E.Fröhner
— Achene sculpturing colliculate ..................................................................................................................... 7
7. Achene ovoid globose in shape, obtuse at the base ............................................................. A. erythropoda Juz.
— Achene ovoid in shape, ovoid at the base ..................................................................................................... 8
8. Epidermal cell shape polygonal irregular, epidermal cell wall undulate ............................... A. caucasica Buser
— Epidermal cell shape polygonal, epidermal cell wall straight ................................................. A. hessii Rothm.
9. Achene with blunt acuminate apex ............................................................................................................ 10
— Achene with acute or acute curved apex .................................................................................................... 12
10. Epidermal cell shape polygonal irregular, epidermal cell wall undulate ...................................................... 11
— Epidermal cell shape polygonal, epidermal cell wall straight ..................................... A. fluminea S.E.Fröhner
11. Achene ovate-globose in shape and sculpturing colliculate with fine folding ............................ A. rigida Buser
— Achene ovate in shape and sculpturing colliculate with folding and papillae ......................... A. sericata Rchb.
12. Achene with acute apex ............................................................................................................................. 13
— Achene with acute curved apex ................................................................................... A. hyrcana (Buser) Juz.
13. Hilum position basal, achene broadly ovate in shape, sculpturing colliculate with folding, epidermal cell shape long polygonal irregular, epidermal cell wall straight-slightly undulate ............................... A. persica Rothm.
— Hilum position subbasal-lateral, achene long ovate, sculpturing colliculate, with X-formed folding, epidermal cell shape triangular-rhomboidal irregular, epidermal cell wall straight ................ A. microscopica S.E.Fröhner
14. Hilum position subbasal-lateral, apex acute or acute curved, ovoid or obtuse at the base ........................... 15
— Hilum position subbasal, apex blunt acuminate, ovoid at the base ............................................................. 17
15. Achene ovate and long ovate in shape, apex acute or acute curved, sculpturing ruminate reticulate-foveatetuberculate or ruminate reticulate-tuberculate ........................................................................................... 16
— Achene ovate in shape, apex acute, sculpturing reticulate-foveate ............................... A. pseudocartalinica Juz.
16. Achene ovate in shape, with irregular reticulate elevation on the surface, acute curved apex, epidermal cell shape polygonal irregular ............................................................................................. A. melancholica S.E.Fröhner
— Achene long ovate in shape, with ruminate lineate elevation on the surface, acute apex, epidermal cell shape polygonal ......................................................................................................... A. kurdica Rothm. ex Bornm.
17. Achene obtuse at the base, epidermal cell shape polygonal ........................................................................ 18
— Achene ovate or obtuse at base, epidermal cell shape rectangular polygonal ............................................... 19
18. Achene tear-ovate in shape, apex acute, sculpturing reticulate-foveate ..................... A. gigantodus S.E.Fröhner
— Achene ovate-globose in shape, apex acute curved, sculpturing reticulate falsifoveate ......... A. farinosa S.E.Fröhner
19. Achene ovoid at the base, apex blunt acuminate ........................................................................................ 20
— Achene obtuse at the base, apex acute curved ....................................................... A. plicatissima S.E.Fröhner
20. Achene sculpturing reticulate-foveate, outer periclinal layer raised-depressed, hilum 0.24 mm long ............... .............................................................................................................................. A. pectiniloba S.E.Fröhner
— Reticulate-alveolate, outer periclinal layer depressed, hilum length shorter than 0.2 mm ................................ ....................................................................................................................................... A. rechingeri Rothm.
description: Published as part of Shokatyari, Samira, Faghir, Marzieh Beygom, Kazempour-Osaloo, Shahrokh & Sohani, Mohammad Mehdi, 2022, Achene micromorphology of the genus Alchemilla L. (Rosaceae) in Iran, pp. 183-198 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (18) on page 194, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a18, http://zenodo.org/record/6794478