Mormon-tea (Ephadra fasciculata)
This is Desert Mormon Tea pollen from Joshua Tree, California. The pollen has not been acetalized and is mounted in a medium with a refactive index of 1.49. This is at equitorial focus.
Transmitted Brightfield
Click here for PolDat images. Faegri, Knut and Johs Iversen, TEXTBOOK OF POLLEN ANALYSIS, Hafner Publishing Company, 1964.
Kapp, Ronald O., HOW TO KNOW POLLEN AND SPORES, Wm. C. Brown Company, 1969.
Moore, P.D., J. A. Webb, and M. E. Collinson, POLLEN ANALYSIS, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991
Definition/Function:
KINGDOM: Plantae DIVISION: Gnetophyta CLASS: Gnetopsida ORDER: Ephedrales FAMILY: Ephedraaceae GENUS: Ephadra SPECIES: fasciculata
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References:
Click here for PolDat images. Faegri, Knut and Johs Iversen, TEXTBOOK OF POLLEN ANALYSIS, Hafner Publishing Company, 1964.
Kapp, Ronald O., HOW TO KNOW POLLEN AND SPORES, Wm. C. Brown Company, 1969.
Moore, P.D., J. A. Webb, and M. E. Collinson, POLLEN ANALYSIS, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991
