Seedling characters are important and promising from the taxonomic as well as evolutionary point of view. The seedling morphology of f ive medicinal plants of Cucurbitaceae was studied from different parts of Tripura, North-east India. Seedling morphology of f ive species of Cucurbitaceae has been investigated on the basis of their germination pattern, the position of cotyledon, hypocotyl, epicotyl, and para-cotyledon and eophyllsdevelopment. An artif icial key has been constructed for easier identif ication of plants in their juvenile stage. Phenogram has been prepared to investigate the correlation between the investigated taxa. Cluster analysis summarized the relationshipamong the investigated taxa intoaphenogram.
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