POLLEN MORPHOLOGY OF 6 SPECIES FROM SONNERATIA AS A FOSSIL GUIDE

The distribution of Sonneratia extends from East Africa to Indo-Malesia,northern Australia,New Guinea and the Western Pacific,and the Sonneratia vegetation comprises the main communities of coastal mangrove forests. This paper presents pollen morphological results based on LM and SEM observations for six species of the genus. Pollen wall debris obtained by the MP FastPrep120 were observed using SEM in order to examine the exine stratification. Four pollen types of the Sonneratia species can be grouped,namel...

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