cryptoaperturate

Questions

What does cryptoaperturate mean?

Describing a pollen grain in which the aperture is present but not in an obvious gap or furrow, instead covered or hidden by a continuous outer layer of the pollen wall that acts as a protective operculum.

Where does cryptoaperturate come from?

From crypto- + aperturate.

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