Conocephalum conicum- Massive Decline in Spore-elater Ratio

Kanu Anand^1, and Anima Langer¹

¹Department of botany university of jammu jammu india

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Kanu Anand and Anima Langer. Conocephalum conicum- Massive Decline in Spore-elater Ratio. Research in Plant Sciences. 2015; 3(1):1-3. doi: 10.12691/plant-3-1-1

Abstract

Various populations of Conocephalum conicum were collected from different regions of Jammu division, Jammu and Kashmir, India. All the fertile populations showed less spore-elater ratio i.e 0.4:1 which is very much lower than the actual ratio in order Marchantiales. When compared with herbarium specimens of 1958, this plant showed same results means its ratio starts declining over a decade.

Keywords:
Conocephalum conicum spore-elater ratio

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