Popweb - a guide to the plant types, pollen and ecosystems of Northern Europe
Popweb logo
Filipendula ulmaria (Meadow Sweet)
The oval, double walled pollen grain of Filipendula ulmaria has a regularly micro-echinate surface and three short furrows with small pores (Andrew 1984). Columellae are aggregated in to lines or are roughly C-shaped. It has narrow, transverse endocolpi at the equator of the grain (Moore, et al. 1991). The pollen grain of F. vulgaris is too similar to be distinguished.
View Uppsala University images of Filipendula ulmaria by clicking here

©2001 Queen Mary, University of London. Please Email your comments.