Pollinium (plural pollinia)

Pollen-grains cohering into a single group and distributed as such (e.g. in derived subfamilies of Apocynaceae and Orchidaceae).


The waxy body of pollen produced in the milk weed family.


A tightly-bound cluster of pollen grains that is distributed as one unit, as in some Apocynaceae and Orchidaceae.


A sticky mass of pollen grains cohering together within the anther of an Orchid. The entire pollinia can be transferred by insects to another flower.


 


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