Floral symmetry and its role in plant-pollinator systems: Terminology, distribution, and hypotheses

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 29, Issue , 1998, Pages 345-373

  Neal, Paul R ^a   Dafni, Amots ^b   Giurfa, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomorphy; Bilateral; Flower; Radial; Zygomorphy

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FLOWER; POLLINATION; SYMMETRY;

EID: 0032408772     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.345     Document Type: Article

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