background & aim: satureja khuzistanica jamzad. is an aromatic and medicinal perennial plant belongs to family mint (lamiaceae). it is also an iranian exclusive endemic species, its essential oil components are widely used in medicinal, culinary, and perfume industries. experimental: flowers were collected in 10 regions in khuzistan and lorestan provinces, iran at early anthesis during 2009...

Abstract High-altitude island environments, with their characteristic strong seasonal contrast and limited resources, are challenging contexts for human subsistence. However, although archaeological in this kind of setting hold great potential to explore the diversity biological cultural adaptations, such sites rare. In paper, we present results a microcontextual geoarchaeological study carried...

The micromorphology of foliar trichomes of Hypoestes aristata var. aristata was studied using stereo, light and scanning microscopy (SEM). This genus belongs to the advanced angiosperm family Acanthaceae, for which few micromorphological leaf studies exist. Results revealed both glandular and non-glandular trichomes, the latter being more abundant on leaf veins, particularly on the abaxial surf...

In this study, the micromorphology of vegetative and reproductive structures endemic Centaurea glaberrima Tausch subsp. divergens (Vis.) Hayek (Asteraceae), using scanning electron microscope (SEM), is presented for first time. Uniseriate whip-like non-glandular biseriate glandular trichomes are found on surface all aboveground parts (stem, leaves, peduncles, involucral bract). On adaxial leaf ...

A new species of the genus Orbiniella Day, 1954 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae), collected during the BIOICE programme on sedimentary bottoms off Iceland, is described. Orbiniella petersenae sp. nov. is a shelf and slope species (107 to 1,915 m) chiefly characterized by having notopodial postchaetal papilla from first chaetiger, long crenulated capillary chaetae and several acicular chaetae on each pa...