Echium vulgare
Taxonomy: Angiospermae, unplaced, Boraginaceae, Echium
Published: 2016-11-28
Pollen Description
Shape, Size and Aperture
pollen unit: monad, dispersal unit and peculiarities: monad, size (pollen unit): small (10-25 µm), size of hydrated pollen (LM): -, shortest polar axis in equatorial view (LM): -, longest polar axis in equatorial view (LM): -, shortest diameter in equatorial or polar view (LM): -, longest diameter in equatorial or polar view (LM): -, pollen class: colporate, polarity: heteropolar, P/E-ratio: prolate, shape: -, outline in polar view: circular, dominant orientation (LM): -, P/E-ratio (dry pollen): prolate, shape (dry pollen): -, outline in polar view (dry pollen): triangular, infoldings (dry pollen): aperture(s) sunken, aperture number: 3, aperture type: colporus, aperture condition: tricolporate, colporate, aperture peculiarities: aperture membrane ornamented
Ornamentation and Structure
LM ornamentation LM: -, nexine: -, sexine: -, SEM ornamentation SEM: perforate, suprasculpture SEM: -, TEM tectum: eutectate, infratectum: columellate, foot layer: continuous, endexine: absent, intine: monolayered, wall peculiarities: -, supratectal element: -
Miscellaneous
pollen coatings: pollenkitt, reserves in cytoplasm: lipids, cell number: 3-celled, Ubisch bodies: absent
Author(s) of diagnosis: Loos, Claudia; Halbritter, Heidemarie
Pictures
1. flower(s)
2. polar view, upper focus
3. optical section
4. polar view (distal), lower focus
5. pollen grain with two sperm cells (asterisks)
6. polar view
7. equatorial view
8. aperture
9. polar area
10. dry pollen grains
11. polar view (dry pollen grain)
12. dry pollen grain in equatorial view
13. pollen grain in cross section
14. interapertural area of pollen wall
15. aperture
16. pollen wall at transition of aperture and interapertural area
17. vegetative nucleus
Picture legend
- flower(s), photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar view, upper focus - fresh, acetolyzed, unstained, photographer: Loos, C.
- optical section - fresh, acetolyzed, unstained, photographer: Loos, C.
- polar view (distal), lower focus - fresh, acetolyzed, unstained, photographer: Loos, C.
- pollen grain with two sperm cells (asterisks) - fixed, glutaraldehyde, aceto-carmine, photographer: Loos, C.
- polar view - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- equatorial view - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- aperture - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar area - fresh, rehydrated (water) & critical point dried & sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- dry pollen grains - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Halbritter, H.
- polar view (dry pollen grain) - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Loos, C.
- dry pollen grain in equatorial view - dry, sputter coated with gold, photographer: Loos, C.
- pollen grain in cross section - fresh, glutaraldehyde & osmium & potassium ferrocyanide, modified Thiéry-test, photographer: Loos, C.
- interapertural area of pollen wall - fresh, glutaraldehyde & osmium & potassium ferrocyanide, modified Thiéry-test, photographer: Loos, C.
- aperture - fresh, glutaraldehyde & osmium & potassium ferrocyanide, modified Thiéry-test, photographer: Loos, C.
- pollen wall at transition of aperture and interapertural area - fresh, glutaraldehyde & osmium & potassium ferrocyanide, modified Thiéry-test, photographer: Loos, C.
- vegetative nucleus - fresh, glutaraldehyde & osmium & potassium ferrocyanide, modified Thiéry-test, photographer: Loos, C.
Literature
- (1998) Preparing living pollen material for scanning electron microscopy using 2,2-dimethoxypropane (DMP) and criticalpoint drying. Biotechnic Histochem 73: 137–143
- (1994) Exkursionsflora von Österreich : 1180
Copyright and Citation
Cite this publication as:
Loos C., Halbritter H. 2016. Echium vulgare. In: PalDat - A palynological database. https://pc8.botanik.univie.ac.at/pub/Echium_vulgare/302279; accessed 2025-04-28