Morphology of pollen of some representatives of the genus Billbergia thunb. (Bromeliaceae Juss.)

  • Tetyana Kolomiyets ESC “Institute of Biology” of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, O.V. Fomin Botanical Garden, Symon Petlyura str. 1, 01032 Kyiv, Ukraine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.160772

Abstract

The morphology of pollen grains of four Billbergia species (B. pyramidalis, B. saundersii, B. vittata, B. zebrina) has been studied using the light (LM) and scanning electron (SEM) microscopes. The detailed morphological characteristic of pollen grains has been given. It is noted that the pollen grains of Billbergia representatives are of large size, ellipsoid, bilaterally symmetric, monocolpate and have small reticulate sculpture of exine.

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Fig. 1. Pollen grains of Billbergia pyramidalis: А – equator view (SEM, ×2600); Б – group of pollen grains (SEM, ×2400); В, Г – equator view (LM, ×100).
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2014-04-01
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KOLOMIYETS, Tetyana. Morphology of pollen of some representatives of the genus Billbergia thunb. (Bromeliaceae Juss.). Modern Phytomorphology, [S.l.], v. 6, p. 243-249, apr. 2014. ISSN 2227-9555. Available at: <http://ojs.phytomorphology.org/index.php/MP/article/view/162>. Date accessed: 11 apr. 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.160772.
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