DETERMINACIÓN DE LA FLORA POLINÍFERA DEL VALLE DE OXAPAMPA (PASCO-PERÚ) EN BASE A ESTUDIOS PALINOLÓGICOS

Abstract

In order to evaluate the potential of pollen flora of Oxapampa Valley (Pasco-Perú), 19 samples of bee pollen were evaluated, collected from 7 apiaries on the districts of Huancabamba, Chontabamba and Oxapampa. We conducted a floristic inventory for a herbarium and a reference pollen library. Corbicula pollen samples were obtained through hunting-pollen traps. Corbicula pollen samples were separated into groups according to the color of the pollen accumulation and estimates of specific pollen frequency were performed by these groups of color. The reference samples of flora and Corbicula pollen were acetolized and analyzed by microscopy to identify the morphological types of taxa present, correlating the color of the Corbicula pollen accumulation with species identified in samples.