Neoregelia margaretae
Neoregelia margaretae is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. Its specific epithet pays homage to Margaret Mee, a British botanical artist who carried out fifteen expeditions to the Amazon rainforest to collect and paint rare or endangered plant species, including many species of Bromeliaceae. Description. Pollen. The pollen of the species is large, ranging in size from 51 µm to 100 µm. The pollen is of the monad type and it has multiple poles. When viewed from a pole, the pollen is an ellipsoid shape. When dry, the pollen is an irregular shape and has  irregular infoldings. The apertures on the pollen's surface are porus and psilate, lacking ornamentation. The grains lack orbicules. Taxonomy. "Neoregelia margaretae" was first described by Lyman Bradford Smith in 1968 in the 25th volume of the botanical journal "Fl. Braz. For". Habitat and distribution. "Neoregelia margaretae" can be found across the Amazon in Brazil. The holotype was collected by Margaret Mee in the Amazonas by the Içana River in February 1968. Painting. Margaret Mee was known for her paintings of bromeliads in the Amazon, and "Neoregelia margaretae" was one of the species she recorded in watercolor. Unknown to science  and still unnamed at the time, Mee was the first to record the existence of the species. The painting of "N. margaretae", made in 1979, was notable for its ability to capture botanical details of the species while still showing the plant in its totality, rather than on different plates which depict individual parts.