pollen in which the outline of the sacci in polar view is more or less continuous with the outline of the corpus, so that the grains appear a more or less smooth ellipsoidal form. Examples: Pinus cembra, Picea (Pinaceae). See also: diploxylonoid, haploxylonoid, Sylvestris-type. Haploxylonoid (adj.) ( Traverse, 1988) Describing bisaccate pollen in which the outline of the sacci in polar view is more or less continuous with the outline of the corpus, so that the grains appear a more or less smooth ellipsoidal form. See also: diploxylonoid, Haploxylon-type, Sylvestris-type.

(adj.) ( Potonié and Kremp, 1954) Describing pollen with two sacci. Example: Pinus (Pinaceae). See also: saccus, protosaccus, pseudosaccus. Brachy- A prefix for short. Synonym of brevi-.