Meaning of heterocolpate | Babel Free

Definitions

Having both simple and compound colpi.

not-comparable

Examples

“There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc.”

“Heterocolpate pollen grains occur in some genera in which both colporate and simple colpi are found.”

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