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INDEX

The latest edition of the "glossary" is published by ELSEVIER in the
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynolgy, Volume 143.
There you can download the glossary in PDF format.

Glossary of Pollen and Spore Terminology

W. Punt, P.P. Hoen, S. Blackmore, S. Nilsson, and A. Le Thomas

Additions and changes to the second edition

Edited by P.P. Hoen

Cite as:

Hoen, P.P., 2010.
Glossary of pollen and spore terminology - Additions and changes to the second edition.
http://www3.bio.uu.nl/palaeo/glossary/glos-new.htm

New Terms

At The moment there are no terms known that are not listed in the second edition of the "Glossary".

Changes

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Shape classes (pl.) (Erdtman, 1943)

Categories of pollen and spore shape based on the relations between polar axis (P) and equatorial diameter (E).
See also: oblate, oblate spheroidal, P/E ratio, peroblate, perprolate, prolate, prolate spheroidal, suboblate, subprolate.

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Colpororate (adj.) (Moar, 1993)

A compound aperture characterised by an ectoaperture, a shorter lolongate mesoaperture and a lalongate endoaperture. Example: Sonchus (Compositae).
Comment: This term describes a compound aperture with a mesoaperture.
See Also: mesoaperture.

Corpus (pl. corpi) (Erdtman, 1957)

The body of a saccate pollen grain or camerate spore.

Tectum (pl. tecta, adj. tectate) (Fægri and Iversen, 1950)

The layer of sexine, which forms a roof over the columellae, granules or other infratectal elements.
See also: eutectum, semitectum, tegillum.

Tegillum (pl. tegilla, adj. tegillate) (Erdtman, 1952)

Synonym of tectum.

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Example added

Tilia structure (Praglowski, 1971)

A sexine structure describing a pertacte tectum provided with funnel-like concavities of which the bottoms coalesce with a single underlying columella, to form one unit. Example: Tilia cordata (Tiliaceae).

'See also' added

Uniplanar tetrad (Walker and Doyle, 1975)
	A tetrad in which the individual members lie more or less in one plane. See also: linear tetrad, T-shaped tetrad, rhomboidal tetrad, tetragonal tetrad.

Shape classes (pl.) (Erdtman, 1943)
	Categories of pollen and spore shape based on the relations between polar axis (P) and equatorial diameter (E). See also: oblate, oblate spheroidal, P/E ratio, peroblate, perprolate, prolate, prolate spheroidal, suboblate, subprolate.

Colpororate (adj.) (Moar, 1993)
	A compound aperture characterised by an ectoaperture, a shorter lolongate mesoaperture and a lalongate endoaperture. Example: Sonchus (Compositae). Comment: This term describes a compound aperture with a mesoaperture. See Also: mesoaperture.

Corpus (pl. corpi) (Erdtman, 1957)
	The body of a saccate pollen grain or camerate spore.

Tectum (pl. tecta, adj. tectate) (Fægri and Iversen, 1950)
	The layer of sexine, which forms a roof over the columellae, granules or other infratectal elements. See also: eutectum, semitectum, tegillum.

Tegillum (pl. tegilla, adj. tegillate) (Erdtman, 1952)
	Synonym of tectum.

Tilia structure (Praglowski, 1971)
	A sexine structure describing a pertacte tectum provided with funnel-like concavities of which the bottoms coalesce with a single underlying columella, to form one unit. Example: Tilia cordata (Tiliaceae).