IMPACT OF TUBER LOCATION ON MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CYCLAMEN

摘要

In Cyclamen genus, there are differences at some degree of morphological characters among closely related wildspecies with disjunct distributions. Two hundred and fiveTurkish landraces of cyclamen coming from different areascontaining different temperature, altitudes, soil and vegetation, relative humidity and light intensity were evaluated for 12quantitative morphological traits of flowers and leaves such as petal length, petal width, flower number/plant, pedicel length,basal corolla ring diameter, pistil length, stamen length, leaf number/plant, petiole length, lamina length, lamina width, plantgrowth habit, in Cyclamen mirabile, Cyclamen alpinum and Cyclamen hederifolium. According to the location of species, allthree species showed morphological differentiation in two traits (pedicel length and petiole length). C. mirabile showed highlevels of morphological differentiation from other species (in eight traits out of 12, as 66,7%), followed by C. hederifolium(in six traits out of 12, as 50%) and C. alpinum (in four traits out of 12, as 33,3%).