Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae DOI: 10.5586/asbp.3493 ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Publication history Received: 2015-07-22 Accepted: 2016-04-07 Taxonomic significance of achene Published: 2016-05-23 morphology of selected Rosa taxa Handling editor Joanna Zalewska-Gałosz, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences (Rosaceae) occurring in Poland of the Jagiellonian University, Poland Andrzej M. Jagodziński1,2*, Irmina Maciejewska-Rutkowska3, Authors’ contributions 3 4 All authors made substantial Dorota Wrońska-Pilarek , Jan Bocianowski contributions to idea and 1 Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland design of the study; AMJ and 2 Department of Forest Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71c, DWP analyzed the data and 60-625 Poznań, Poland prepared a draft of the paper; 3 Department of Forest Botany, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71d, 60-625 IMR collected plant material Poznań, Poland and analyzed the data; JB 4 Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznań University of Life Sciences, collaborated with statistics and Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznań, Poland results interpretation * Corresponding author. Email:
[email protected] Funding The study was supported by the Institute of Dendrology, Polish Abstract Academy of Sciences (Kórnik, Poland). Achenes of roses were rarely studied and the studies were focused on anatomical research, mainly on pericarp structure and its development. We investigated the Competing interests achene morphology by light- and scanning electron microscopy (LM and SEM) of No competing interests have been declared. 17 Rosa taxa from three sections (R. gallica from Gallicanae section, R. pendulina and R.