heterocolpate

English

Etymology

hetero- +‎ colpate

Adjective

heterocolpate (not comparable)

1. (botany, of a pollen grain) Having both simple and compound colpi.
   • 2013 October 22, W. B. Turrill, Vistas in Botany: Recent Researches in Plant Taxonomy, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 25:

     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.

   • 2018 December 19, Heine Klaus, Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26, Routledge, →ISBN:

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