Premium
Pollen Morphology of Acinos Miller Species Growing in Turkey
Author(s) -
Kaya Ayla,
Kutluk Hatice
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2007.00453.x
Subject(s) - reticulate , pollen , prolate spheroid , subspecies , taxon , morphology (biology) , botany , biology , genus , palynology , zoology , physics , classical mechanics
The pollen morphology of six taxa of the genus Acinos Miller has been examined under scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a description of each taxon has been given. Acinos pollen is stephanocolpate (hexacolpate). Two main exine sculpturing types , foveolate‐reticulate (only in subspecies of A. troodi ) and reticulate, have been defined. The dimension for the polar length ranges between 25.8–47.4 μm , equatorial width 24.5–34.4 μm , colpus length 20.0–40.5 μm and colpus width 1.2–2.5 μm. The shape is mostly subprolate to prolate , seldomly prolate‐spheroidal. The results reveal rather uniform morphological features , however fine details are characteristic to differentiate the pollen taxa. Acinos pollen also share some common morphological features with the other Lamiaceae pollen.