Database
Our pollen reference collection comes predominantly from plants found in the temperate northeast North America, and smaller collections of plants from the southwest United States and Iceland. As part of historical archaeological research group, our collections explicitly focus on plant taxa useful for understanding contexts of plant-human interactions: cultigens, ornamentals, weeds, and plants associated with disturbed habitats as well as the standard pollen collections of arboreal and non-arboreal pollen. Our collection includes more than 1200 specimens. Images are added regularly.
Search and Image Options
This database is designed for simplicity and flexibility, accessible even for the novice user. The database can be searched by taxonomic group (family or genus) or morphological characteristics (aperture and sculpturing).
Microscopy
Images were obtained using a Nikon Labophot microscope. Extended depth of field imaging was obtained using Nikon NIS-Elements software.
Nomenclature
Taxonomic nomenclature follows IPNI database (www.ipni.org/index), and morphology according to Kapp, Davis, and King (2000), Erdtman (1952), McAndrews (1973), Moore and Webb (1978), and Moore, Webb, and Collinson.
How to cite:
Trigg, Heather, Susan Jacobucci, and John Steinberg. “Fiske Center Pollen Image Database”
References
Erdtman, G. Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy: Angiosperms. Almqvist and Wiksells: Uppsala, 1952.
Kapp, R., Owen Davis, and James King. Pollen and Spores. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation Publication, 2000.
Moore, P.D. and J.A. Webb. An Illustrated Guide to Pollen Analysis. Halsted Press: New York. 1978.
Moore, P.D., J.A. Webb, and M.E. Collinson. Pollen Analysis. Blackwell Scientific Publications: Oxford. 1991.
Thanks to Jim Allen, curator of the UMass Boston greenhouse http://greenhouse.bio.umb.edu/ for his assistance in cultivating plants, and Kyle Port and Harvard University Arnold Arboretum for allowing us to collect.
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