pollinia
- plural of pollinium.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, in lineages that have pollinia, the speciation rate was 5.1% higher than in lineages that don’t, Givnish and colleagues report this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2015
The pollen, or more correctly, the pollen-tetrads, remain fastened together as club-shaped pollinia usually borne on a slender pedicel.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
Referring to Crüger's letters from Trinidad, he wrote:—"Happy man, he has actually seen crowds of bees flying round Catasetum, with the pollinia sticking to their backs!"
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles
As I have fully treated this subject in another work, I will here give only a few details on one alone of the most striking peculiarities of the flowers of orchids, namely, their pollinia.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
Some of the packets or partial pollinia, of which Fig.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
