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Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocstanum) Pollen Through the Microscope

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocstanum) Pollen

This is horse-chestnut pollen, the second most common pollen type in the pollen packets of the third row collected near Palleau, France. This is at equitorial focus.

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Definition/Function:

KINGDOM: Plantae /Angiosperms /Eudicots /Rosids ORDER: Sapindales FAMILY: Sapindaceae GENUS: Aesculus SPECIES: hippocstanum

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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