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Pollen from several New Zealand Myosotis species was analysed in a publication co-authored by Te Papa Botany Curator Heidi Meudt.
On this page, you can scroll through the 335 scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of pollen from Te Papa (WELT) specimens analysed in this study. An additoinal 255 SEM images of pollen from specimens from three other herbaria (AK, CHR, OTA) that were also analysed in the same study can be seen here.
Special thanks to Raoul Solomon and Yanyu He, Manawatū Microscopy and Imaging Centre, Palmerston North, who performed the SEM and took all the images. All images are copyright Te Papa.
Reference
Meudt HM. 2026. Ordination and Model-Based Clustering Analyses Highlight Palynological Variation and Patterns in a Comprehensive Pollen Survey of Southern Hemisphere Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis, Boraginaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 64: e70087, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/nzb2.70087