pericolpate

English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ colpate.

Adjective

pericolpate (not comparable)

1. (botany, of a pollen grain) Having colpi located in a non-central position.
   • 2007, Alfred Traverse, Paleopalynology, page 120:

     Erdman would call many of the "colpi" of a pericolpate grain sulculi, as they are not meridional, do not cross the equator, but are more-or-less parallel to it, or colpoids, if otherwise located.