Passiflora sclerophylla Harms (1915: 347)

Mezzonato-Pires, Ana Carolina, Mendonça, Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira, Milward-De-Azevedo, Michaele Alvim & Gonçalves-Esteves, Vania, 2017, The systematic value of pollen morphology of Passiflora subgenus Astrophea (Passifloraceae), Phytotaxa 298 (1), pp. 1-19 : 10

Passiflora sclerophylla Harms (1915: 347) ( Fig. 4C–D )

Pollen grains large, subprolate ( Table 1), polar area small ( Table 2), amb subtriangular; colpi long, narrow, endoaperture lalongate, pontoperculum ( Table 3) does not reduce the width of the apocolpium; sexine reticulate, heterobrochate; muri simplecolumellate, slightly sinuous, continuous, without perforatins, without high columellae, not apparent, tectum surface mostly curved, lumina slightly ornamented ( Fig. 4D ); there is no difference in the diameter of the lumina of the apocolpium and the mesocolpium; sexine the same thickness as nexine ( Table 4).

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FIGURE 4. Photomicrographs and electron photomicrographs of pollen grains of the species of Passiflora subg. Astrophea. A–B. P. rusbyi—equatorial view: A. endoaperture, B. general aspect. C–D. P. sclerophylla—equatorial view: C. general aspect. D. ornamentation detail.E–G.P.securiclata—polar view:E.general aspect; equatorial view: F.general aspect.G. ornamentation detail.H–K.P.tessmannii— polar view: H optical section; equatorial view: I. endoaperture, J. general aspect. K. ornamentation detail. L. P. venosa—equatorial view: general aspect. Scale bar: 10 μm (A, B, C, H, I); 5 μm (E, F, J, L); 2 μm (D, G, K).