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acalymmate

acalymmate adjective: forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.

Adjective

acalymmate (not comparable)

  1. Forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.
    • When loosely associated, each tetrad retains most of its outer exine layer, leading to calymmate tetrads, but an acalymmate massula (since the exine is not continuous around each massula […]).1996, John V. Freudenstein, Finn N. Rasmussen, “Sectile Pollinia and Relationships in the Orchideaceae”, in Plant Systematics and Evolution, volume 205, →DOI, pages 125–146

Origin of acalymmate

From a- + calymmate.

Questions about acalymmate

What does acalymmate mean?
Acalymmate means forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.
What part of speech is acalymmate?
Acalymmate is an adjective.

Words near acalymmate in the dictionary

  1. acaloric
  2. acalycal
  3. acalycine
  4. acalycinous
  5. acalyculate
  6. acalymmate
  7. acalypha
  8. acalyphas
  9. acalyptrate
  10. acalyptrates
  11. Acamar

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