Pollination biology of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. f. (Welwitschiaceae, Gnetopsida)

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 167-183

  Wetschnig, Wolfgang ^a   Depisch, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diptera; Gnetopsida. Pollination biology; Hymenoptera. Flora of SW Africa; Welwitschia mirabills; Welwitschiaceae

Indexed keywords

ALLODAPE; BENGALIA DEPRESSA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; CHRYSOMYA ALBICEPS; ISCHIODON AEGYPTICUS; MUSCA DOMESTICA; OXYBELUS; PHYSIPHORA DEMANDATA; PROBERGROTHIUS SEXPUNCTATUS; RHYNCOMYA; ULIDIA; WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS; WOHLFAHRTIA PACHYTYLI;

EID: 0032850695     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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