PALYNOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELECTED PLANT SPECIES IN ALBANIA USING LIGHT MICROSCOPY

This microscopic palynological research included five species (Arabis turrita, Cymbalaria muralis, Daphne blagayana, Epilobium dodonaei, and Robinia hispida) belonging to five different families, which were collected in various habitats, specifically in the Shebenik National Park, in the area of Tirana, and the Dajti Mountain in Tirana, Albania.The species were studied for the first time from a palynological perspective by local authors, providing new insights into the field of palynology.The study revealed that the pollen grains of the studied species belonged to different pollen classes: those of A. turrita are tricolpate, those of C. muralis are tricolporate, those of D. blagayana are pantoporate, those of E. dodonaei are triporate, and those of R. hispida are tricolporate.From the palynomorphological comparison of the studied species with those reported in the literature, we found that the pollen grains of D. blagayana are, on average, larger in diameter than those of the mezereum species.The pollen grains of E. dodonaei are smaller in size than those of the angustifolium species, and those of R. hispida are larger in all palynological features than those of the pseudoacacia species.