• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2012

To clarify the morphological variations of Galium, its morphological characteristics were examined using maximum parsimony analysis. The key characteristics as well as the range of variation in each characteristic were investigated at the species level and were employed to elucidate the relationships between the taxa. This study confirmed that species belonging to genus Galium formed a monophyletic group and comprised two main clades. Sect. Cymogaliae and sect. Leptogalium are polyphyly groups, and other sections are monophyletic group. This study also suggests that the fruit hairs, the types of petal apexes, and the colors of the petals are the most valuable taxonomic characteristics for differentiating different sections. The numbers of the leaves and leaf shape provide useful taxonomic characteristics for the identification of different species.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.392-404
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• 2016

The anatomical characters of the 19 taxa of Korean Juncus were reviewed in order to examine their significance in taxonomy. Cross-section analyses were conducted on the stem, leaf, and capsule. Descriptions, line drawings, tables, and a species key of Korean Juncus are provided for species identification based on anatomical characters. The results of this study showed that the arrangements of the vascular bundle, fiber, and air-space structure in the stems as well as the arrangements of the vascular bundle and parenchyma in the leaves and the development of placenta in capsules are the key characters to be used when classifying each species of Juncus. It was revealed that the studied anatomical features were more useful for identification at the subgenera and section levels than at the species level. Therefore, these anatomical characters used in conjunction with external morphological features will make a valuable contribution to establishing a natural classification system for Juncus.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.223-235
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• 1995

Comparative studies on external morphology and anatomical characters were conducted understand the interspecific relationships and possibly to identify the position of Hanabusaya asiatica as an endemic genus among 4 genera and 9 species in H. asiatica and its allied groups. Such morphological characteristics as root shape, leaf size, presence or absence of wings in petiole, corolla and calyx shape, and inflorescence and stigma shape were useful qualitative characters. The morphology of stem, peduncle, calyx lobe, leaf, petiole, and ovary were also good characters to be included in this identification study. In the anatomical observations in these organs, projecting degree of epidermis and number of projecting area rather than cross-sectioned internal structures were found to be valuable index for the classification among species. External morphology and anatomical characters support the position of H. asiatica as an endemic genus very well. Known as the most important external characters to taxonomists(Fedorov, 1957: Nakai, 1952: Hong, 1983), leaf arrangement, inflorescence, and corolla shape were also preven to be very useful characters to identify the genera and species in the H. asiatica and its allied groups.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.324-339
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• 1999

Morphological reinvestigation, external characters and discriminant functional analysis(44 qualitative characters) were examined on 6 taxa of Korean Ophelia, including 5 taxa distributed in south Korea, and one taxon considered to be the variation type of Ophelia wilfordi in order to clarify the limit of intersection and interspecies. And to establish the taxonomic position. One taxon distributed in north Korea was included in the description of species by observation of herbarium specimen of the University of Tokyo in Japan. The two sections were successfully distinguished by internal structure of ovary, morphology of nectary, number of corolla lobe and calyx lobe, and species were also distinguished by morphology of cauline leaf, and color and spot of corolla, respectively. The variation type of Ophelia wilfordi was not distinguished with other species except for absent or present of purple spot in corolla lobe. The results of the discriminal functional analysis indicated that characters of corolla were the most important qualitative characters to distinguish the Ophelia taxa, and morphology of seed and seed coat was useful characters to distinguish taxa higher than species. Therefore the difficult problems of identification of species were successfully solved, and the taxonomic position in intrageneric level was clarified on Korean Ophelia.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.41-41
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• 2003

기존의 계통분류는 비교해부학적 및 비교발생학적 방법에 의해 소수의 특징적인 기준형질만을 가지고 상위분류군간의 분류범주를 정하고, 종을 배정하였기 때문에 상당한 인위성이 개입되었고, 이렇게 주관적으로 정리하다 보면 종종 한개의 분류군에 대하여 서로 불일치하는 경우도 있다. 따라서 상위분류군들은 분류군을 구성하는 많은 구성원들이 나타내고 있는 형질의 집합체로서, 다양한 형질에 의해서 다루어져야 한다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.35-35
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• 2019

현호색속은 양귀비과에 속하는 분류군으로서 전 세계에 약 450분류군이 분포하며 한국에는 25분류군이 분포한다. 20분류군의 한국산 현호색속 식물을 대상으로 화부 형태, 밀선의 형태, 밀선의 부착 위치를 비교 분석하였다. 현호색속 식물의 꽃은 좌우대칭하며 외화판의 거(spur)에 위치한 밀선을 갖는데 밀선의 위치, 형태 등은 현호색속의 분류체계를 반영하는 중요한 형질로 판단된다. 관찰결과 현호색절과 가는괴불주머니절의 밀선은 거(spur)의 1/3~2/3 정도 까지 신장되며 신장부는 매우 가늘지만 선단부에서는 다소 부푼 후 뾰족해지고 아래쪽으로 굽으며 분비조직이 위치하고 있는 부분은 녹색, 신장부는 횐색을 띠었다. 들현호색절에서는 거(spur)의 중간 정도에 위치한다. 기부는 두껍고 화색과 같은색을 띠지만 끝부분은 가늘고 굽지 않으며 흰색을 띤다. 자주괴불주머니절의 밀선은 거의 신장되지 않고 주걱형이며 노란색을 띠었다. 산괴불주머니절에서는 거(spur)의 3/4까지 신장되며 선단부는 뾰족하고 녹색을 띠며 아래로 굽는다. 밀선의 형태는 거(spur)의 형태와 관련이 있다. 거(spur)가 주머니처럼 부푸는 절에서 밀선분비조직의 뚜렷한 발달이 관찰되고 거(spur) 안에 분비된 화밀을 저장한다. 비록 현호색절과 산괴불주머니절이 서로 밀접한 계통을 갖지는 않지만 이들이 공유하는 밀선의 형태는 거(spur) 형태의 유사성에서 기인한 것으로 보인다. 한국산 현호색속 밀선의 형질진화 분석을 위하여 mesquite을 이용하여 ancestral reconstruction를 수행하였다. 밀선의 형질진화는 한국산 현호색속 5절의 계통진화를 반영하였다. 현호색속의 화부형질은 매우 복잡하고 다양한 방향으로 진화한 것으로 보이며 이를 이해하기 위해서는 다양한 화부형질의 종합적인 검토가 필요하다. 이번 연구에서 확인된 화부구조와 분비조직의 형질은 현호색속의 계통진화를 잘 반영하고 있었으며 향후 분비조직의 해부형질, 미세형질 등의 추가연구를 통하여 현호색속의 계통연구를 위한 새로운 분류학적 가치를 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.11-25
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• 1999

Two problematic subgenera of Tomoceridae (Collembola, Insecta) were investigated for their phylogenetic relationships based on morphological characters and allozyme study from three relevant species. Different dendrograms were obtained obtained between morphological and allozyme studies. The morphological data did not give rise to any result distinctive enough to separate the two subgenera whereas the allozyme analysis produced a clear separation by the high genetic distance value. They were consistent, however, whether given rise to by using distance or cladistic methods and also whether character weighting or unweighting approaches employed in the morphological character analysis. As a consequence, it is strongly suggested that any prominent morphological trait might work as a good taxonomical character when supported by a strong genetic divergence as evidenced by allozyme analysis for instance.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.247-252
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• 2012

Seed morphology in the subtribe Agrimoniinae (Rosaceae) was examined using scanning electron microscopy to identify distinct characters and evaluate their evolution in a phylogenetic framework for five genera in the subtribe: Agrimonia L., Aremonia Neck. ex Nestl., Hagenia J.F. Gmel., Leucosidea Eckl. & Zeyh., and Spenceria Trimen. All genera have one or two mature achenes in a fruiting hypanthium. In the seed coats, the cell shape, size, wall features, and sculpturing vary across genera. Of most significance is the presence of papillae structures in both Agrimonia and Aremonia. Through the mapping of papillae features onto phylogenetic trees, either one or two changes in seed coats are hypothesized. The phylogenetic tree inferred from four nuclear and six chloroplast regions of sequence data suggests that at least two steps of papillae sculpturing on seed coats are required. On the other hand, in the phylogenetic tree of a low-copy nuclear gene, one independent evolutionary step is postulated to explain the current character states. In the latter hypothesis, the seed coat sculpturing also supports a monophyletic relationship for cosmopolitan Agrimonia and European endemic Aremonia. The seed coat sculpturing provides valuable information for inferring phylogenetic relationships at the generic level in the subtribe Agrimoniinae.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.61-78
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• 2007

The general morphological characters of Lysimchia sect. Spicatae were reviewed. From the results, numerical analyses were conducted based on 34 morphological characters from 14 populations of three species in Korea in order to investigate the key characters among the treated taxa and taxonomic delimitation and to discuss the systematic relationship. Habitat, leaf apices, presence or absent of hair on leaves, stipules, stems and bracts, branch of stems, kind of hair on floral axis and pedicels, shape of florescens were important diagnostic characters to identify the species. The relationship between Lysimachia clethoides and L. barystachys was more close than that of L. fortunei based on the quantitative characters. Also, a new key was made up from the result.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.196-207
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• 2013

As a recent infrageneric classification of Juncus (Juncaceae), Kirschner suggested two subgenera which are distinguished by the type of inflorescence and the absence/presence of bracteole along with 10 sections which are distinguished by the characters of the leaves, the position of the inflorescence, and types of stamens and seeds. However, an intensive morphological investigation on Korean Juncus has yet to be performed. We surveyed the morphological characters of 14 taxa distributed throughout the Korean peninsula, including one North Korean taxon. The quantitative and qualitative characters of rhizomes, leaves, inflorescences, flowers, fruits, and seeds were investigated on each taxon using about 950 specimens of Korean Juncus on loan from major Korean herbaria. As a result, we provide diagnostic characters with illustrations and a key to Korean Juncus.