The exine morphology and pore size of pollen from diverse angiosperm taxa with homomorphic gametophytic, homomorphic sporophytic, and heteromorphic self-incompatibility have been studied. The results indicate that correlations alleged to exist between the type of self-incompatibility system and the nature of the pollen wall morphology should be treated with considerable caution.
Key words Angiosperms - Pollen exine sculpturing - self-incompatibility systems