A Study of Foliage Morphological Descriptions Accommodating Continuity in Previous Delimitation of Types in Tropical Plants

Fawibe Oluwasegun Olamide; Ogunyale Omolara Grace; Oyelakin Abiodun Sunday; Ayodele Muyiwa Segun

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A Study of Foliage Morphological Descriptions Accommodating Continuity in Previous Delimitation of Types in Tropical Plants

Fawibe Oluwasegun Olamide, Ogunyale Omolara Grace, Oyelakin Abiodun Sunday, Ayodele Muyiwa Segun

Published in Journal of Plant Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 3)

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The morphological description of some selected tropical plants in Ogun State, Nigeria was investigated. This is with a view to bridge existing more or less compartmentalized foliar descriptions which are discrete and lack the observed continuum of shape types in nature. Plants from which leaves were collected and observed for the different traits were randomly collected from some Local Government Areas of the State. The qualitative macromorphological characters observed include, leaf type, leaf shape, leaf apex, leaf base and leaf margin with varying percentage occurrence. Of the 74 distinct foliage types examined 62(84%) matched the existing foliage descriptions in literature while 12(16%) had undefined shape descriptions. It was observed that simple (79%), ovate and lanceolate (18%), entire (58%), acute (26%), acute (44%) had the highest frequency for the leaf type, leaf shape, leaf margin, leaf apex and leaf bases respectively, while the lowest frequency was recorded to be compound (21%), linear, oblanceolate, acicular, orbicular, sagitate, falcate, peltate, hastate, lobed (1.6%), spinose, denticulate, crenate, parted (1.6%), mucronulate and cirrhose (1.6%), auriculate and hastate (1.6%) in the leaf type, leaf shape, leaf margin, leaf apex and leaf bases respectively. Other shapes hitherto undefined include: lanceospatulate, zygomorphic-trilobe, ensiformis, lobed-pentate, lobed-starlate and ellipto-dentoid. The study revealed that there is a continuum in plant foliage macromorphological description rather than independent occurrence of plant foliage characters found in literature.

Published in	Journal of Plant Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.jps.20150303.11
Page(s)	111-116
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Foliage, Qualitative, Morphology, Delimitation

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Fawibe Oluwasegun Olamide, Ogunyale Omolara Grace, Oyelakin Abiodun Sunday, Ayodele Muyiwa Segun. A Study of Foliage Morphological Descriptions Accommodating Continuity in Previous Delimitation of Types in Tropical Plants. J Plant Sci. 2015;3(3):111-116. doi: 10.11648/j.jps.20150303.11

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Fawibe Oluwasegun Olamide

Department of Pure and Applied Botany, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Ogunyale Omolara Grace

Department of Pure and Applied Botany, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Oyelakin Abiodun Sunday

Department of Pure and Applied Botany, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
Ayodele Muyiwa Segun

Department of Pure and Applied Botany, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

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AU  - Ogunyale Omolara Grace
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