NPP

Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database

NPP

...“extra fossils“ in pollen slides

EMA-62

NPP type

Taxonomical Group

Spermatophyta, Planta

Type description

elongated, (15)30–60(210)×(4)6–12(20) μm, bright yellow to brown and psilate. When less corroded, with shape of a compressed cylinder with at least one incline cut end, strongly corroded with irregular shape and small hollows and bubbles beneath the surface caused by fungal decay.

Records

Unknown

First publication

Barthelmes A, de Klerk P, Prager A, Theuerkauf M, Unterseher M, Joosten H (2012) Expanding NPP analysis to eutrophic and forested sites: Significance of NPPs in a Holocene wood peat section (NE Germany). Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 186:22-37

cf. sclerenchymatic fibres

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