The term pororate signifies the presence of incongruent pores in compound apertures. Looking into glossaries and illustrated pollen terminology, no term was encountered to denote compound apertures with incongruent colpi. The terms colpato-colpate and poro-porate were used to describe heterocolpate pollen grains with structurally different colpi or pores. What about "colpopate" in the same sense as "pororate" as a possible term for incongruent colpi in compound apertures.
Is it necessary to create special term or to use descriptive phrase instead.
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Colpopate is not convenient, compared to pororate.
A hole in the pollen wall (the exine) was coined as a pore (pora) or as a rounded mouth (ora), such as their combination as pororate is linguistically correct and morphologically significant for their location in the ectexine and the endexine, respectively. Poro-porate also does the job, but less elegantly.
Colpato-colpate aptly describes the situation for furrows (colpi) but colpopate does not.
Cocolpate would sound better because there is no such thing as a ...popate in terms of aperture for the desinence.
Gunnar Erdtman should have coined a term for colpo-colpate pollen grains... No?
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