Pithecellobium dulce
Taxonomy: Angiospermae, Fabales, Fabaceae, Pithecellobium
Published: 2017-08-24
Pollen Description
Shape, Size and Aperture
pollen unit: polyad, dispersal unit and peculiarities: polyad, size (pollen unit): large (51-100 µm), pollen class: polyad, polarity: heteropolar, shape: -, outline in polar view: -, shape (dry pollen): no suitable term, outline in polar view (dry pollen): -, infoldings (dry pollen): -, aperture number: none, aperture type: no aperture, aperture condition: inaperturate, aperture peculiarities: -
Ornamentation and Structure
LM ornamentation LM: -, nexine: -, sexine: -, SEM ornamentation SEM: psilate, fossulate, TEM tectum: -, infratectum: -, foot layer: -, endexine: -, intine: -, wall peculiarities: -
Miscellaneous
pollen coatings: -, reserves in cytoplasm: -, cell number: -, Ubisch bodies: present
- Annotations
polyad consisting of 16 monads
Pictures
Picture legend
- habitus, photographer: Weis, B.
- flower(s), photographer: Weis, B.
- polyad - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polyad - 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.
- exine surface, connections between monads - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- dry pollen - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- exine surface, dry pollen - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- Ubisch bodies on locule wall - dry, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & 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., WEIS B., Pithecellobium dulce. In: PalDat (2017-08-24) - a palynological database. Published on the Internet https://www.paldat.org/pub/Pithecellobium_dulce/303061;jsessionid=5C02FE40A47AAD235541192A639CF460 [accessed 2018-04-20]