Peyman Zarin - Islamic Azad University, Hamadan Branch, Hamadan, P. O. Box. ۶۵۱۳۸-۷۳۴, Iran.
Farrokh Ghahremaninejad - Tarbiat Moallem University, ۴۹ Dr. Mofatteh Avenue, Tehran ۱۵۶۱۴, Iran
Ali Asghar Maassoumi - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands. P. O. Box. ۱۳۱۸۵-۱۱۶, Tehran, Iran.

Amblyocarpum Fisch. & Mey. and Carpesium L. are small genera in the tribe Inuleae s. str. Amblyocarpum includes one species (A. inuloides) and the closely related genus Carpesium includes twospecies (C. cernuum and C. abrotanoides). These species are studied with SEM for the pollen and anatomical (stem and peduncle) characters. The results support the use of these characters for defining the taxonomy of these species.

Anatomy, pollen, Amblyocarpum, Carpesium, Inuleae, Asteraceae, Iran