Claim · model-written summary
Pollen size and exine thickness differed significantly among the Talinum species.
- Outcome
- pollen size and exine thicknesse1
TalinumVerbatim
e0“four Talinum species ( Talinum fruticosum, Talinum paniculatum, Talinum portulacifolium , and Talinum triangulare )”
e1“Quantitative characters showed significant differences in pollen size and exine thickness”
Title
Funmilola Mabel Ojo; Taiwo Ayomipo Adenegan-Alakinde; Abiola Olawale Ilori; et al. Discover Plants. 2026. doi:10.1007/s44372-026-00633-w
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Talinum fruticosum had the largest polar axis, 57.20 ± 0.23 µm.
- Observation Talinum fruticosum had the largest equatorial diameter, 57.50 ± 0.22 µm.
- Observation Talinum paniculatum fell into the media pollen size class, with polar and equatorial values of 40.50 ± 0.33 µm and 40.85 ± 0.33 µm.
- Observation The other three Talinum species fell into the magna pollen size class.
- Observation Talinum triangulare had the thickest exine walls, 2.78 ± 0.04 µm.
- Observation T. paniculatum had the thinnest exine walls, 1.85 ± 0.02 µm.
- Observation Polar and equatorial axes were positively correlated (r = 0.98).
- Observation Colpus length and width were positively correlated (r = 0.98).
- Observation Colpus traits and pore dimensions were negatively correlated.
- Observation Hierarchical clustering placed T. triangulare and T. portulacifolium as closely related, with T. fruticosum next and T. paniculatum separate.
- Observation Aperture type, exine thickness and grain size are robust diagnostic traits for the species.
- Observation Pollen was pantoporate with 30–40 pores in three species.
- Observation T. paniculatum had pantocolpate grains.
- Observation Pollen grains were monads, spheroidal and isopolar.
- Observation Pollen grains were radially symmetrical with columellate exine ornamentation.
- Observation The distinctiveness of T. paniculatum suggests a potential status as a morphologically divergent species.
Talinum fruticosum
Talinum paniculatum