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How To Use pollinium In A Sentence

• These I attempted to fertilise, but with two only of the six have I been successful: I succeeded in forcing a single pollen-mass into the stigmatic chamber of one of the latter, but I failed to do this on the other; however, by inserting a portion of a pedicel with a pollinium attached, I caused the latter to adhere, with a gentle press, to the mouth of the stigmatic chamber. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
• He who will carefully examine the flowers of orchids for himself will not deny the existence of the above series of gradations—from a mass of pollen-grains merely tied together by threads, with the stigma differing but little from that of an ordinary flower, to a highly complex pollinium, admirably adapted for transportal by insects; nor will he deny that all the gradations in the several species are admirably adapted in relation to the general structure of each flower for its fertilisation by different insects. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
• The pollen spores are usually aggregated into two or four waxy masses ( "pollinia," sing. pollinium), which usually can only be removed by the agency of insects upon which all but a very few orchids are absolutely dependent for the pollination of the flowers. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• The pollen spores are usually aggregated into two or four waxy masses ( "pollinia," sing. pollinium), which usually can only be removed by the agency of insects upon which all but a very few orchids are absolutely dependent for the pollination of the flowers. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• In principal, the length of flower anthesis depends on pollination and removal of the pollinium.
• In this latter case we have a pollinium in its most highly developed and perfect condition.
• The stigmatic flaps were gently splayed apart, and a single pollinium was inserted into the stigmatic chamber using the needle.
• Orchids, however, have all possible tetrad types: linear, decussate, square, tetrahedral, rhomboid and T-shaped are all reported, e.g. in Calanthe discolor which has a soft pollinium.
• In this latter case we have a pollinium in its most highly developed and perfect condition. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
• A single pollinium from a flower of a pollen donor was then inserted into the exposed stigmatic chamber, convex margin first, and the anther wings were gently pressed back together.