@article{Batista_Costa_Gimenes_Pivetta_Môro_2011, title={Morphological aspects of seeds and seedlings of Syagrus oleracea (MART.) BECC – Arecaceae}, volume={2}, url={https://comunicatascientiae.com.br/comunicata/article/view/37}, DOI={10.14295/cs.v2i3.37}, abstractNote={<span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;"><font size="2" color="#221e1f"><p align="justify">The</p></font></span><p align="justify"><em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f; font-family: Century Gothic,Century Gothic;">Syagrus oleracea </span></em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">(Mart.) Becc palm, although widely used in Brazilian landscaping, is poorly studied, especially, regarding seedlings production. Studies on ‘seed’ (</span><span style="font-size: xx-small; color: #221e1f;">botanically, a pyrene) </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">and seedling morphology of this palm have not been found, although it has a great market demand. Thus, this study aimed to describe the seeds and seedlings morphology of </span><em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f; font-family: Century Gothic,Century Gothic;">S. oleracea</span></em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">. The morphology of seeds, the embryos and the phases representing the germination process were </span><span style="font-size: xx-small; color: #221e1f;">sketched with the aid of clear camera attached to a stereomicroscope. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">The fruit is a drupe and the seeds are albuminous with ruminated endosperm of hard consistency and occupying almost the entire interior of the seeds. The embryo is lateral, peripheral, poorly differentiated and rectum. Through the opening of a circular operculum in wraps seeds, emerges cotyledon petiole that grows and expands at </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f; font-family: Century Gothic,Century Gothic;">its end, resulting in the primary root and shoot. The first juvenile complete leaf is simple and </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">lanceolated, with parallel venation, composed of large veins, arranged longitudinally. The germination of the </span><em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f; font-family: Century Gothic,Century Gothic;">S. oleracea </span></em><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #221e1f;">seeds is of remote tubular type.</span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Comunicata Scientiae}, author={Batista, Gisele Sales and Costa, Raquel Silva and Gimenes, Renata and Pivetta, Kathia Fernandes Lopes and Môro, Fabíola Vitti}, year={2011}, month={Dec.}, pages={170–176} }