Pollen syntricolpate

• Title

  Pollen syntricolpate

• Definition

  A type of pollen in which the colpi unite at both poles of a pollen grain.

• Notes

  In neotropical Lecythidaceae, the pollen is tricolpate or tricolporate. The paleotropical subfamily Barringtonioideae (previously called Planchonioideae, see Thorne, 2000) has a type of pollen, when all of its features are considered, is unique in the flowering plants (Huang, 1994).

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