Pollination of petaloid geophytes by monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Hopliini) in southern Africa

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-230

  Goldblatt, Peter ^a   Bernhardt, Peter ^b   Manning, John C ^c  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANISOCHELUS; ANISONYX; ARCTOTIS; ARISTEA; ASTERACEAE; CAMPANULACEAE; COLEOPTERA; DAUBENYA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; DROSERA; HETEROCHELIS; HEXAPODA; HOMERIA; HYACINTHACEAE; INSECTA; IRIDACEAE; IXIA; KHOINA; LEPITHRIX; LEPSIA; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MORAEA; ORNITHOGALUM; PACHYCNEMA; PERITRICHIA; PRISMATOCARPUS; ROMULEA; RUTELINAE; SCARABAEIDAE; SPARAXIS; SPILOXENE; TRITONIA; URSINIA; WAHLENBERGIA;

EID: 0031664305     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2992006     Document Type: Article

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