Aechmea tayoensis
Taxonomy: Angiospermae, Poales, Bromeliaceae, Aechmea
Published: 2017-03-24
Pollen Description
Shape, Size and Aperture
pollen unit: monad, dispersal unit and peculiarities: monad, size (pollen unit): large (51-100 µm), pollen class: porate, polarity: heteropolar, shape: oblate, outline in polar view: elliptic, shape (dry pollen): irregular, outline in polar view (dry pollen): irregular, infoldings (dry pollen): irregularly infolded, aperture number: 2, aperture type: porus, aperture condition: porate, diporate, aperture peculiarities: aperture membrane smooth
Ornamentation and Structure
LM ornamentation LM: -, nexine: -, sexine: -, SEM ornamentation SEM: psilate, foveolate, perforate, TEM tectum: -, infratectum: -, foot layer: -, endexine: -, intine: -, wall peculiarities: -
Miscellaneous
pollen coatings: -, reserves in cytoplasm: -, cell number: -, Ubisch bodies: absent
- Annotations
shape: heteropolar or isoplar
Pictures
Picture legend
- hydrated pollen - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- hydrated pollen - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- equatorial view - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- aperture - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- exine surface - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- dry pollen - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
Literature
- (1998) Preparing living pollen material for scanning electron microscopy using 2,2-dimethoxypropane (DMP) and criticalpoint drying. Biotechnic Histochem 73: 137–143
Copyright and Citation
Cite this publication as:
HALBRITTER H., Aechmea tayoensis. In: PalDat (2017-03-24) - a palynological database. Published on the Internet https://www.paldat.org/pub/Aechmea_tayoensis/302989;jsessionid=204AFACDCB782681D35594D36833579A [accessed 2018-04-20]