Morphology of pollen grains of 25 species of Salix (Salicaceae) of the Asian part of Russia according to electron microscopy

Abstract

This is a study of pollen grain morphology of 25 species of the genus Salix L. (Salicaceae) from of the Asian part of Russia was carried out with the use of scanning electron microscope. All species had 3-colpate pollen grains. The length of the polar axis varied from 14 to 30 mkm, the length of the equatorial diameter - from 9.5 to 17.4 mkm. This study has shown the different shapes of the pollen grains, such as the elliptic, broadly and narrowly elliptic.