• Dipmala Das
• Ranjan Das
• Tanushree Gaine
• Shouvik Mahanty
• Punarbasu Chaudhuri

Description and key to, mangrove pollen grains from extant taxa are important for palynological study. In the present study, we aim to prepare a pollen morphological catalogue and identification key for most of Indian mangrove flora. The morphology of the Indian mangrove and associated mangrove pollen grains were identified, described and illustrated by using Foldscope. The Foldscope , an ultra-affordable paper microscope was designed to be extremely portable, durable providing an optical quality similar to conventional research microscopes having magnification of 140X and resolution upto 2 micron (Cybulski et al. 2014).For this study, floral samples were collected from the Indian mangrove region and the pollen grains of the sample species were subjected to acetolysis following Erdman’s acetolysis method.( Erdtman1960) and mounted on slides for examination using Foldscope.Under the foldscope, pollen grains were identified by observing few simple morphological characteristics such as Size, pore type , exine ornamentation etc.With the obtained data, Pollen morphological catalogue was prepared containing scientific name, plant photograph, pollen photograph, (obtained using foldscope) and the flowering season for each sampled species of Indian mangrove region.This pollen morphological catalogue for Indian mangrove plants would work as a manual for identification of pollen grains of different true mangrove and mangrove associate plants. The keys would be open for future development of the pollen catalogue so that pollen grains of mangroves can be included when available.

Mangrove, Indian Sundarban, Pollen, Foldscope.

"DOCUMENTATION OF POLLEN GRAINS OF COMMONLY FOUND MANGROVES OF INDIAN SUNDARBAN USING FOLDSCOPE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.886-892, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907884.pdf

"DOCUMENTATION OF POLLEN GRAINS OF COMMONLY FOUND MANGROVES OF INDIAN SUNDARBAN USING FOLDSCOPE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp886-892, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907884.pdf