Campanula rapunculoides
Taxonomy: Angiospermae, Asterales, Campanulaceae, Campanula
Published: 2016-05-03
Pollen Description
Shape, Size and Aperture
pollen unit: monad, dispersal unit and peculiarities: monad, size (pollen unit): medium-sized (26-50 µm), pollen class: porate, polarity: isopolar, shape: spheroidal, outline in polar view: circular, shape (dry pollen): spheroidal, outline in polar view (dry pollen): circular, infoldings (dry pollen): not infolded, aperture number: 5, aperture type: porus, aperture condition: porate, stephanoporate, aperture peculiarities: stephanoaperturate
Ornamentation and Structure
LM ornamentation LM: -, nexine: -, sexine: -, SEM ornamentation SEM: echinate, striato-microreticulate, TEM tectum: -, infratectum: -, foot layer: -, endexine: -, intine: -, wall peculiarities: -
Miscellaneous
pollen coatings: -, reserves in cytoplasm: -, cell number: -, Ubisch bodies: -
- Annotations
aperture number 4-6, mostly 5.
Pictures
Picture legend
- flower(s), photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar view - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- equatorial view - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- aperture - fresh, critical point dried & rehydrated (water) & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- exine surface - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- dry pollen grains - 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. 2016. Campanula rapunculoides. In: PalDat - A palynological database. https://www.paldat.org/pub/Campanula_rapunculoides/300972;jsessionid=BFE40FA9E9EEE8AD740E5AE4EDEDAE66; accessed 2019-02-22