Pollen Grain Morphology of Some Species of Hibiscus

Abstract
Pollen grains of ten species of Hibiscus Linn. Were collected from different locations within South Western Nigerian and acetolysed. The various sizes, length of spines, distance between spines, diameter of apertures, distance between apertures and nature of spine end are useful tools in the taxonomy of the Hibiscus species studied.
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Keywords
Hibiscus Linn.,, Pollen grain shapes, Pollen grain sizes, Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn., H. tiliaceus, H. sterculiifolius
Citation
Akinwusi, Olubukola and Illoh, H. C. (1996). Pollen Grain Morphology of Some Species of Hibiscus. Nigerian Journal of Botany, 9.