Snow Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) Pollen

This is pollen collected from a snow lily flower found in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. It has been dewaxed with alcohol but not acetalized. The purple pigment would be lost in acetalization. This is an equitorial view of the monocolpate pollen rotated from the colpus. The mounting medium is Melt Mount with a refractive index of 1.704. This is at cross-section focus.

Transmitted Brightfield Illumination

Definition/Function:

KINGDOM: Plantae /Angiosperms /Monocots ORDER: Lilales FAMILY: Liliaceae SUBFAMILY: Lilioideae GENUS: Erythronium SPECIES: grandiflorum

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References:

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