Vegetative reproduction in the juvenile phase of Ammophila breviligulata
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 59 (5) , 883-892
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b81-123
Abstract
A. breviligulata Fern. was the dominant species with a density of 110-150 culms/m2 along Lake Erie shoreline at Rondeau Provincial Park [Ontario] Canada. In the juvenile phase the plants produced underground rhizones which grew plagiotropically to distances ranging from 129-389 cm from the parents and became orthotropic. The number of nodes on a primary rhizome ranged from 26-52 depending on rhizome lengths and each node bore 1 bud. A small proportion of these buds produced ramets but the rest remained dormant. A chi-square analysis of data showed that leafy shoots occurred in a nonrandom fashion always appearing on the distal end of a primary or secondary rhizome.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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