A remarkable case of ornithophily in Calceolaria: Food bodies as rewards for a non-nectarivorous bird

Botanica Acta

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 172-176

  Sersic A N ^a   Cocucci, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Food body; Ornithophily; Pollination biology; Scrophulariaceae; Thinocorus

Indexed keywords

CUSHION PLANT; ORNITHOPHILY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CALCEOLARIA UNIFLORA; SCROPHULARIACEAE; THINOCORUS RUMICIVORUS;

EID: 0030498787     PISSN: 09328629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1996.tb00558.x     Document Type: Article

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