The Northwest European Pollen Flora

This volume should be seen as an extension to both the existing publications for pollen identification and traditional floras based on gross morphology.

In the NEPF a pollen type provides the basis for a hierarchical construction around which the diversity of palynomorphs can be organised and interpreted.

It is not a physical specimen in a herbarium, as is the type of a species name, but rather a published account comprising detailed descriptions and comprehensive illustration.

In Volume VIII of "The Northwest European Pollen Flora" the following families are studied: Osmundaceae, Azollaceae, Salviniaceae, Droseraceae, Aizoaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Rhamnaceae, Vitaceae, Betulaceae (incl.

Corylaceae), Myricaceae, Onagracea and Lythraceae.