Claim · model-written summary
Elytrantheae pollen with 3_syncolpate apertures and blunt-tipped spiny, striate exine may be primitive.
- Taxon
- ElytrantheaeElytrantheaee0
- Organ / stage
- pollen grainse0
- Outcome
- primitive typee0
- Qualifier
- 3_syncolpate aperture and exine of blunt_tipped spines and striate ornamentatione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e0“In the tribe Elytrantheae, pollen grains with 3_syncolpate aperture and exine of blunt_tipped spines and striate ornamentation may represent the primitive type”
Title
Pollen morphology of the Loranthaceae from China
Han Rong Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 2004
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Exine features divided Loranthaceae into groups consistent with Elytrantheae and Lorantheae.
- Observation Elytrantheae pollen with diplocolporate or diplosyndemicolpate apertures was considered derived.
- Observation Lorantheae pollen with isopolarity, 3_syncolpate apertures and granulate exine may be primitive.
- Observation Lorantheae pollen with heteropolarity, alternate apertures and scabrate or indistinct granulate ornamentation was considered derived.
- Observation Group I of Lorantheae comprised Dendrophtho, Scurrula, Taxillus and Tolypanthus.
- Observation Group II contained only Helixanthera.
- Observation Group III contained only Loranthus.
- Observation Group I was relatively primitive in pollen morphology.
- Observation Taxillus and Scurrula had insignificant pollen morphological differences.
- Observation Group II was relatively derived in pollen morphology.
- Observation Group III was relatively derived in pollen morphology.