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Morphological Traits of Sedum Albumsensu Stricto (Crassulaceae) Biologia Serbica, 2019, 41(1): 3-12 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2586951 Original paper Morphological traits of Sedum album sensu stricto (Crassulaceae): variability patterns across the Balkan Peninsula Bojan ZLATKOVIĆ1*, Maja JOVANOVIĆ1, Bogosav STOJILJKOVIĆ2, Jovana KRSTIĆ1, Martina STOJANOVIĆ1, Sanja STOJANOVIĆ1, Jovana ZDRAVKOVIĆ1 and Dmitar LAKUŠIĆ3 1University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology and Ecology, Višegradska 33, Niš, Serbia 2Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, Unit in Niš, Vožda Karađorđa 14, Niš, Serbia 3University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden “Jevremovac”, Takovska 43, Belgrade Received: 29 November 2018 / Accepted: 28 December 2018 / Published online: 14 March 2019 Summary. The present study analyzes morphological variability of Sedum album in a sample collected on the Balkan Peninsula. The objectives were to determine the degree of morphological variability of the quantitative characters and their importance in possible differentiation within S. album sensu stricto populations. Variability was analyzed within 315 individuals from 21 populations. A total of 28 quantitative characters, including characters of the veg- etative region, inflorescence and floral parts, were examined. Quantitative data was processed in STATISTICA 8.0, including descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and univariate variance analysis (ANOVA). The obtained results indicate moderate to highly expressed variability of most of the analyzed traits, as well as differences in the mean values of all characters, indicating a high level of morphological diversity of S. album in the Balkan Peninsula. Keywords: Balkan Peninsula, Crassulaceae, morphological traits, morphometry, Sedum album, variability pattern. INTRODUCTION this family (Nikulin et al. 2016; Zlatković et al. 2016). Thus, this genus has attracted the attention of many researchers. The Crassulaceae DC. is a medium-sized family of mostly genus consists of 400-500 species (Strid and Tan 2002), pre- succulent plants that includes 1300 to 1500 species, classi- dominantly distributed in subtropical and temperate regions fied in 33-35 genera, with a mainly cosmopolitan distribu- of the Northern Hemisphere (Strid 1986; ,t Hart 1991; Thiede tion (Eggli 2003; Thiede and Eggli 2007; Mort et al. 2010; and Eggli 2007). Besides North and Central America, North Christenhusz and Byng 2016). Throughout the Mediterra- Africa and much of Asia, Sedum is also present in Europe, as nean region in Europe, it is represented by 177 species of represented by 69 species classified in more than 25 series (,t 12 genera along with parts of the Balkan Peninsula (,t Hart Hart 1997). Of the several dozen species of this genus, autoch- 1997). However, although most research to date has focused thonous in the flora of Europe, almost 2/3 can be found in on precisely classifying the entire Crassulaceae family (van southern Europe and countries with an coast on the Mediter- Ham and ,t Hart 1998; Mort et al. 2001; Gontcharova and ranean Sea (Webb 1964). Gontcharov 2008; Mort et al. 2010) the greater problem of The entire classification of Crassulaceae is problematic clarifying the boundaries and relations between individual because a large number of species exhibit similar morpholog- taxa in the genus Sedum remains to be addressed (Nikulin ical and cytological traits as well as a high degree of variabil- et al. 2016). ity, especially in their vegetative features (Strid 1986; Webb Genus Sedum L. with its variety of species is the richest et al. 1993; Strid and Tan 2002; Mifsud et al. 2015; Zlatković genus of the Crassulaceae family, and it is also morphologically et al. 2016). Sedum album, the focus of the present study, is and taxonomically the most diversified and complex genus of E-mail: [email protected] Zlatković et al. a good example of a species that exhibits clear spatial and Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). The locations environmental morphological variability. where plant material were collected are indicated on Fig. 1. Sedum album L. (Sedum ser. Alba Berger) is a caespi- Detailed information on localities and habitat characteristics tose, perennial, leafy, succulent plant, often with crawling, are given in Table 1. Representative individuals from each rooting stems, subterete, alternately arranged leaves and in- population were deposited in the Herbarium of the Depart- florescence composed of a large number of relatively small, ment of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Math- white to pinkish colored flowers. This species predominantly ematics, University of Niš (HMN). All employed entities inhabits warm and dry habitats on rocky soils in hills and have been identified as Sedum album subsp. eu-album Syme mountains. Its distribution is represented throughout Europe (Sedum album s.s.). The identification of the collected plant to Central Scandinavia, in North Africa, Asia Minor, and material was performed using a key for species constructed northern and western Asia (Davis 1972; Strid 1986; Stid and by Maire (1977) and including intraspecific Sedum taxa. Tan 2002; Eggli 2003). It is one of the most common species In order to eliminate the influence of ecological factors of the genus Sedum within the Mediterranean region and the in their original, native destinations, all populations were Balkan Peninsula. In a morphological sense, it is highly vari- subjected to a period of acclimatization in a greenhouse over able with a series of transient morphological forms which has a period of at least 12 months prior to morphometric analy- led to complicated intraspecific classification and the alloca- sis. Cultivation was conducted in a series of plastic pots of tion of low-level taxa (Eggli 2003). In literature sources, it is the same diameter, on Floradur® substrate (FloraGard, Ver- often referred to as a complex of the species S. album, which triebs GmbH für Gartenbau, Germany) mixed with sand at is in addition to the typical taxon S. album, regarded in the a ratio of 4:1. narrow sense (Zlatković et al. 2016). However, there remains For the purpose of morphometric analyzes, 15 indi- a dilemma which representatives of the complex are so-called viduals from each population were isolated (a total of 315 “stable” or valid taxa, and which characters can be used as individuals). In the process of further preparation, each in- reliable to distinguish them. Despite the above described is- dividual was labeled with a number for the population and sues, detailed studies of the variability of morphological traits individual. for the typical species S. album have not been conducted for either the Balkan Peninsula or the wider region. Scarce data Characters of vegetative plant region on the variability of a certain number of traits of the species within the complex S. album can be found in various regional Measurements of the 13 quantitative characters of the floras (Jordanov 1970; Davis 1972; Gajić 1972; Strid 1986; vegetative plant region (1-13, Table 2) were made using a Webb et al. 1993; Micevski 1998; Strid and Tan 2002). Mahr Federal 4107107 16U digital caliper (Mahr Gmbh, Es- In this paper, morphological characters from both veg- slingen, Germany, resolution 0.02 mm) or using a ruler to etative (stem and leaf) and reproductive (flowers and inflo- measure the height of the plant (HP). Measurement of each rescences) regions of selected S. album s.s. populations were character was performed in triplicate, with the exception of examined to provide additional data for systematic delimita- the characters: height of the plant (HP), diameter of the stem tion of this species from other interspecific and intraspecific (DS) and length of internodes in the lower and upper part of taxa. Accordingly, several aims were highlighted at the be- the stem (LIL, LIU). ginning of the present study: (1) providing data for selected morphological quantitative characteristics and determining Characters of reproductive plant region the degree of their variability, using material sampled from Measurements of the 15 quantitative characters of the the territory of the Balkan Peninsula, (2) separation of po- flowering parts (14-28) were exclusively performed with a tentially significant characters, that are considered reliable for digital caliper, while the number of flowers in the main in- the taxonomy of allied plant groups, by reviewing the results florescence (NF) and number of side branches of the main of descriptive analyses, correlation analysis and univariate inflorescence (NB) were counted within all examined indi- variance analysis (ANOVA). viduals. The two last characters can have a meristic charac- ter. Flowers for each individual were photographed using MATERIAL AND METHODS a Leica MZ-16A stereo microscope (Leica Microsystems©, Plant material Wetzlar, Germany) after preparing the appropriate perma- nent slides. Floral structures were prepared by dissecting the The selected morphological characters were analyzed flowers followed by careful separation of flower parts. Mil- on individuals from 21 populations of S. album collected limeter paper was used as a background for photographing from the territory of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania, Bulgaria, the minute perianth segments; while a high-contrast (black) 4 Biologia Serbica 41 Morphological traits of Sedum album sensu stricto (Crassulaceae): variability patterns across the Balkan Peninsula Fig. 1. Locations of analyzed Sedum album populations from the Balkan Peninsula. background
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