Pollen Morphology

Pollen Morphology Table

Common Name	Scientific Name	Pollen size (μm)	Pollen Type	Number of Apertures	Surface Texture
Asian Lily	Lilium asiatica	Length 106	monocolpate	1	clavate structures with reticulate patterns
		width 42.6
Rose	Rosa sp.	length 29.5	tricolpate (may be incorrect)	3	striate
		width 14
Jasmine	Jasminum sp.	length 38.5	monocolpate	2	Ruguate
Alstroemeria	Alstroemeria aurea	length 54.6	monolete	1	striate
		width 23.6

We organized this phylogeny tree based on the number of morphological similarities between each species. The tree begins with Jasmine who's pollen doesn't share any similarities with the other plants. Next, our rose had 1 similarity, it has the same striated surface texture as Alstoremeria. We put the Asian lily which is a monocolpate and has one aperture, like Alstroemeria next. Lastly we were left with Alstroemeria, which shared three similarities with the other plants.