heterocolpate
English
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[edit]heterocolpate (not comparable)
- (botany, of a pollen grain) Having both simple and compound colpi.
- 2013 October 22, W. B. Turrill, Vistas in Botany: Recent Researches in Plant Taxonomy, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 25:
- There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc.
- 2018 December 19, Heine Klaus, Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Heterocolpate pollen grains occur in some genera in which both colporate and simple colpi are found.