Floral scents and pollination in neotropical lecythidaceae

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-60

  Knudsen, J T ^a,c   Mod, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

^c D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Euglossophtly; Floral scent chemistry; Gc ms. Head space adsorption; Lecythida; Melittophtly; Pollination biology

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; CORYTHOPHORA; COURATARI; COURATARI STELLATA; COUROUPITA; ESCHWEILERA; GRIAS; GUSTAVIA; LECYTHIDACEAE; LECYTHIS; ESCHWEILERA CORIACEAE; EUGLOSSINAE; HYMENOPTERA;

BEE; BEETLE; BRAZIL NUT; POLLINATION; SCENT;

EID: 0029730308     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2388770     Document Type: Article

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