a mass of cohering pollen grains, produced by plants such as orchids and transported as a whole during pollination
Word origin
C19: New Latin; see pollen
Examples of 'pollinia' in a sentence
pollinia
The flowers are characterized by nectariferous coralline corona, gynostegium and pollinia containing tetrads.
A.J.S. Raju, K.V. Ramana 2009, 'Pollination and seedling ecology of Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn. (Periplocaceae),a commercially important, endemic and endangered species', Journal of Threatened Taxahttp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/433. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The pollen of angiosperms may be dispersed in monads, tetrads, polyads, massulae or compact pollinia.
Ettore Pacini, Gian G. Franchi 2014, 'Some cytological, ecological and evolutionary aspects of pollination', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniaehttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/903. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It revisited the different flower and deposited its pollinia on to it and the act of pollinationwas accomplished.
Lucky K. Attri* and Ravi Kant 2011, 'Orchid Pollination: An Observation on Pollination-Pollinator Interaction in Cymbidiumpendulum (Sw.) Roxb.', Current Botanyhttps://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/cb/article/view/1357. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)