Sample ID | 168-1-2a |
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Species | saponaria |
Genus | Sapindus |
Family | SAPINDACEAE |
Common name | Soapberry, Hawaiian soapberry, soapnut |
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Pollen / Spore | pollen |
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Morphologic type | tricolporate |
Surface pattern | psilate |
Equatorial size | mean 13 |
Polar size | mean 13 |
Equatorial shape | circular |
Polar shape | circular |
Grain arrangement | dicot |
Aperture count | 3 |
Pore surface shape | circular |
Pore colpuses | 3 |
Morphology notes | Tricolporate. Pore apertures round, equatorial on thin colpi. Exine thin approxinately 1um. Psilate tectum. Spheroidal small grain. |
Plant type | angiosperm |
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Floristic region(s) | Hawaiian Islands , East Pacific Islands , Other outside Australasia |
Vegetation communities | open forest |
Habitat notes | Native to South America, Mexico, New Caledonia and Africa. In Hawaii, Sapindus saponaria grows in moist forests on Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea. It occurs naturally at elevations ranging from 2,900 to 4,500 feet (Wagner 1990) Found in stream banks, rocky hillsides, woody margins. In shallow soils it remains a small shrub, in deep soils can become a large tree up to more than 25 metres tall. (Identified in the fossil pollen record of KAO3 in Rano Kao and growing on the lake margin, 75 meters from lake edge, as a full tree 4m tall in March 2008 Gossen 2010) |
Collector | J. Leon 921 |
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Collection site | San Pablo de Nicoya |
Collection country | Costa Rica |
Collection date | 1942-01-01 |
Collection notes | Processed at the Pollen Laboratory, University of Minnesota, USA from the collecton of Ed Cushing, slide ref. B551. Epoxy. F1416539 |