The distribution characteristics of polysaccharides and lipids in anther development of Ambrosium solanum were studied by PAS reaction and Sudan black staining in semi-thin sections embedded in epoxy resin. Some lipid droplets but no starch were found in microspore mother cells and tetrad microspores. The microspore blasts and tetrads of A. solanum have no callose wall. In addition to many lipid droplets, starch grains began to appear around the nucleus in the late microspores. Mature pollen grains store abundant starch grains and lipid droplets, and the pollen wall is composed of polysaccharides. The anther wall structure of A. solanum is special: the anther wall is composed of more than 10 layers of cells. The innermost tapetum cells begin to disintegrate at the microspore stage, and the cytoplasm turns into lipid droplets for pollen absorption. At flowering, the anther wall is composed of epidermis and several layers of parenchyma cells and deformed cells with thickened radial wall fibers.