Estudio del polen atmosférico primaveral de la ciudad de Pamplona

El presente trabajoes un estudio del polen presente en la atmósfera de Pamplona, recogído diariamente durante los meses de marzo, abril, mayo y junio de 1978.

Contribución al conocimiento del polen y de las semillas del género Spergularia en Andalucía occidental

Se estudia al microscopio óptico y al microscopio electrónico de barrido el polen y las semillas de los nueve taxones del género Spergularia representados en Andalucía occidental. El polen resulta ser variable en tamaño y morfología, por lo que su interés taxonómico es sólo relativo si se compara con el de las semillas, que constituyen un carácter útil para la separación de taxones. Se elabora una clave dicotómica para la separación de las especies en función de los caracteres estudiados.

Canna tandilensis Ciciar. (Cannaceae-Zingiberales), a new species from Argentina.

Canna tandilensis is proposed as a species new to science. Plants grow wild terrestrial, in rocky places exposed to solar radiation forming dense colonies whose individuals of small to medium length, produce reduced inflorescences with large and few yellow to bright orange flowers and narrow and reflexed staminodes. The specific epithet refers to the city of Tandil at the south of Buenos Aires Province where the holotype comes from. It is related to other species having reduced inflorescences, narrow leaves and staminodes, and nectar guides in androecium pieces such as C. lineata. A detailed description of the new species is given, along with a study of the morphological vegetative and floral characters. These characters were compared with those from two other species C. glauca and C. lineata. According to these new evidences two groups of similar species of the genus are suggested. The number of species surveyed until now in Argentina rises to sixteen.

Botany origin and protein content of homemade honeys from Galicia hives (NW Spain)

The botanic origin and the protein content of 15 honeys from small bee farms exploitations of Galicia, for family consume, were studied; the aim is to check if the protein wealth and the pollen wealth are dependent parameters. Seven honeys resulted to be Rhamnus frangula unifloral (pollen patterns with low diversity), two Castanea sativa Miller unifloral, other one heather unifloral, and five was multifloral honeys of various pollen patterns (four Castanea predominant and one Rhamnus frangula predominant). Their pollen wealth was low; eight honeys classified in the Maurizio Class I, 3 in Class II, 2 in Class III, and one in Maurizio Class IV. There has been a wide variability in its protein content (0.09- 4.83 mg prot./g honey). The relative amount of pollen from different taxa has a direct or inverse proportionality to wealth protein.