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Palynology

Study of plant pollen, spores and certain microscopic plankton organisms (collectively termed palynomorphs) in both living and fossil form

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  • Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the butterfly habenaria orchid (Habenaria bifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.

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    Investigaciones recientes en paleobotánica y palinología / Aurora Montúfar López (compiladora).

    | Date: [1995]
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    Regular groups of detailed pollen grains from twenty different named flowering plants. Engraving by J.-Z.Mazel, c.1807, after Geoffroy.

    Geoffroy, active 1807-1847. | Date: August 1807 | Reference: 18326i
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    Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the butterfly habenaria orchid (Habenaria bifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.

    | Date: 1892 | Reference: 21234i
    • Pictures

    Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the white helleborine orchid (Cephalanthera grandifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.

    | Date: 1892 | Reference: 21231i

Related topics

Botany
Plant anatomy
Pollen
Flowers - Anatomy

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