Monad

• Title

  Monad

• Definition

  Referring to pollen grains that occur singly, i.e., they separate immediately after meiosis.

• Notes

  In the Lecythidaceae, all Lecythidaceae studied have their fertile pollen in monads (Mori et al., 1980) .

• Related Terms

  Tetrad

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