Sanguisorba officinalis
Taxonomy: Angiospermae, Rosales, Rosaceae, Sanguisorba
Published: 2016-11-29
Pollen Description
Shape, Size and Aperture
pollen unit: monad, dispersal unit and peculiarities: monad, size (pollen unit): medium-sized (26-50 µm), pollen class: colporate, polarity: isopolar, shape: oblate, outline in polar view: circular, shape (dry pollen): prolate, outline in polar view (dry pollen): lobate, infoldings (dry pollen): aperture(s) sunken, aperture number: 6, aperture type: colporus, aperture condition: colporate, hexacolporate, stephanocolporate, aperture peculiarities: stephanoaperturate
Ornamentation and Structure
LM ornamentation LM: -, nexine: -, sexine: -, SEM ornamentation SEM: striate, microechinate, microgemmate, TEM tectum: -, infratectum: -, foot layer: -, endexine: -, intine: -, wall peculiarities: -
Miscellaneous
pollen coatings: -, reserves in cytoplasm: -, cell number: -, Ubisch bodies: -
- Annotations
colpi sometimes irregularly arranged or anastomosing
Pictures
1. flowers of Sanguisorba officinalis
2. polar view (equatorial)
3. equatorial view
4. detail of aperture
5. exine surface
6. polar area
7. dry pollen grains
Picture legend
- flowers of Sanguisorba officinalis, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar view (equatorial) - fresh, DMP & critical point dried, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- equatorial view - fresh, DMP & critical point dried, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- detail of aperture - fresh, DMP & critical point dried, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- exine surface - fresh, DMP & critical point dried, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar area - fresh, DMP & critical point dried, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- dry pollen grains - dry, 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. Sanguisorba officinalis. In: PalDat - A palynological database. https://www.paldat.org/pub/Sanguisorba_officinalis/302499;jsessionid=A4F7280BC8C2B8D8F8B8F572B5A9290C; accessed 2018-11-13