MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL STUDIES ON SOME SPECIES OF THE GENUS BRACHYCHITON,L. CULTIVATED IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

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Botany and Microbiology Dept., Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

Fruit and seed morphological characters, in addition to both nucleic acid and seed protein contents in five native species of Brachychiton (B. discolor, B. acerifolius, B. australis, B. populeneus and B. rupestris) have been studied. 56 selected characters of such studies are subjected to numerical analysis which  resulted a dendrogram classifying the studied spp. into 2 groups. The 1st includes B. discolor which is similar to the 2nd (containing the 4 remainders) at a least similarity % level.

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