eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2015-12-25 12 3 2287 2293 10.13005/bbra/1902 4070 article Tatyana Nikolaevna Kataeva 1 Alexey Sergeevich Prokopyev 1 Alyona Aleksandrovna Akinina 1 Olga Dmitrievna Chernova 1 National Research Tomsk State University, Siberian Botanical Garden, 36 Lenin Prospekt, Tomsk, 634050, Russia In this work, we investigated the outer and inner morphological characters of the seeds of 13 species in the family Gentianaceae. We also identified the main morphometric parameters and described the shape, coloration and sculpture of the seed surface. Some aspects of their internal structure were analyzed as well. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol12no3/seed-morphology-of-some-species-in-the-family-gentianaceae/ Gentianaceae; seeds; morphology; surface sculpture