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OBSERVATIONS ON ESTABLISHMENT AND EARLY SHOOT EMERGENCE OF VISCUM MINIMUM (VISCACEAE)
Author(s) -
Kuijt J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta botanica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0044-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1986.tb00484.x
Subject(s) - biology , shoot , botany , germination , haustorium , parasitic plant , host (biology) , ecology
SUMMARY Viscum minimum Harvey (Viscaceae), a parasite limited to very few succulent species of Euphorbia , has a germination pattern which closely resembles that of Arceuthobium of the same family, in that germination is cryptocotylar, the shoot apex eventually aborting. As in Arceuthobium , the great majority of aerial shoots are produced from the endophyte but, unlike that genus, aerial shoots may in V. minimum also be produced from the margin of the haustorial disk, or even from directly below it. V. minimum is heterophyllous.