Insect pollination in the cycad genus Bowenia Hook. ex Hook. f. (Stangeriaceae)

Biotropica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 438-441

  Wilson, Gary W ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bowenia; Coleoptera; Curculionoidea; Cycad; Entomophilous; Insect pollination; Miltotranes

Indexed keywords

INSECT; POLLINATION; ZOOPHILY;

ANIMALIA; BOWENIA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; CURCULIONOIDEA; CYCADOPSIDA; CYCAS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MILTOTRANES; STANGERIACEAE; ZAMIACEAE;

EID: 0036769853     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00557.x     Document Type: Article

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