- Wafaa M. Amer*, Rania A. Hassan
- The Herbarium, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 12613 Giza, Egypt
In Egypt, Resedaceae is represented by 14 species belonging to five genera, genus Ochradenus is among them represented by one species (O. baccatus Delile). The studied Ochradenus baccatus populations collected from Wadi Degla, Egypt revealed that O. baccatus is gynodioecious species, with female individuals that are constant in sex expression and males that exhibit great variation in functional gender. The field study revealed the presence of inconstant male of O. baccatus in different forms ranging from high fruit-producing to low or nonfruit producing forms with two intermediate forms. The pollen morphology of all the four forms was examined using LM and SEM.
