caa a22 4500 477039278 CHVBK 20180405111313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00989061 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00989061 Rua Gabriel Arbeitsgruppe Biosystematik, Universität Ulm, Liststrasse 3, D-89079, Ulm, Germany aut The inflorescences of Paspalum ( Poaceae, Paniceae ): The Quadrifaria group and the evolutionary pathway towards the fully homogenized, truncated common type [Elektronische Daten] [Gabriel Rua] The inflorescences ofPaspalum are composed of a main axis and 1 to more than 100 raceme-like lateral branches arranged along it. Each branch bears two rows of homogeneous subunits composed either of one or two consecutive-ordered axes, each one ending with a spikelet. In terms ofTroll's descriptive and typological system, such lateral branches were regarded as long paracladia which bear homogeneous bi-axial short paracladia. The structural pattern of these long paracladia is considered to be a recapitulation of the distal main-axis structure which was lost by evolutionary truncation. — The occurrence of a main florescence (= terminal spikelet) and a short paracladia-bearing zone at the distal portion of the main axis in several species of the genusPaspalum, as it is exemplified by species belonging to the so-called ‘Quadrifaria group', seems to support the hypothesis that the usual inflorescence ofPaspalum actually derived from a paniculate structure by evolutionary homogenization and truncation processes. This ‘Quadrifaria-type inflorescences' would be regarded as an intermediate step in the evolutionary pathway. Nevertheless, the phylogenetic implications of this interpretation remains obscure because at the present time there is not any hypothesis about the phylogeny of the genus available. Springer-Verlag, 1996 Poaceae nationallicence Paniceae nationallicence Paspalum nationallicence Inflorescence morphology nationallicence evolutionary pathway nationallicence Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 201/1-4(1996-03-01), 199-209 0378-2697 201:1-4<199 1996 201 606 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rua Gabriel Arbeitsgruppe Biosystematik, Universität Ulm, Liststrasse 3, D-89079, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 201/1-4(1996-03-01), 199-209 0378-2697 201:1-4<199 1996 201 606 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer