The effect of flower position on male and female reproductive success in a deceptively pollinated tropical orchid

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 405-410

  Tremblay, Raymond L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Flower size; Fruit set; Inflorescence length; Lepanthes rupestris; Orchidaceae; Pleurothalidinae; Pollinarium removal; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; EPIPHYTE; FLOWER; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EID: 31744445343     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00504.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bawa KS, Webb CJ. 1984. Flower, fruit and seed abortion in tropical forest trees: implications for the evolution of paternal and maternal reproductive patterns. American Journal of Botany 71: 736-751.
2. Berry PE, Calvo RN. 1991. Pollinator limitation and position-dependent fruit set in the high Andean orchid Myrosmodes cochleare. Plant Systematics and Evolution 174: 93-101.
3. Best LS, Bierzychudek P. 1982. Pollinator foraging on foxglove (Digitalis purpurea): a test for a new model. Evolution 36: 70-79.
4. Blanco M, Barboza G. 2005. Pseudocopulatory pollination in Lepanthes (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) by fungus gnats. Annals of Botany 95: 763-772.
5. Catling P. 1983. Pollination of northeastern North American Spiranthes (Orchidaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 1080-1093.
6. Cole FR, Firmage DH. 1984. The floral ecology of Platanthera blephariglottis. American Journal of Botany 71: 700-710.
7. Fernández DS, Tremblay RL, Ackerman JD, Rodríguez E, López LN. 2003. Reproductive potential, growth rate and light environment in Lepanthes rupestris Stimson. Lankersteriana 7: 73-76.
8. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. 1989. Applied logistic regression. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
9. Lee TD. 1988. Patterns of fruit and seed production. In: Lovett Doust J, Lovett Doust L, eds. Plant reproductive ecology. New York: Oxford University Press, 179-202.
10. Nilsson LA. 1978. Pollination ecology of Epipactis palustris (Orchidaceae). Botaniska Notiser 131: 355-368.
11. Nilsson LA. 1980. The pollination ecology of Dactylorhiza sambucina (Orchidaceae). Botaniska Notiser 133: 367-385.
12. Nilsson LA. 1983. Anthecology of Orchis mascula (Orchidaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 3: 157-179.
13. Nilsson LA. 1984. Anthecology of Orchis morio (Orchidaceae) at its outpost in the north. Nova Acta Regiae Societatia Scientiarum Upsaliensia 3: 167-179.
14. Stephenson AG. 1981. Flower and fruit abortion: proximate causes and ultimate functions. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 12: 253-279.
15. Tremblay RL. 1997. Morphological variance among populations of three tropical orchids with restricted gene flow. Plant Species Biology 12: 85-96.
16. Tremblay RL, Ackerman JD, Zimmerman JK, Calvo RN. 2005. Variation in sexual reproduction in orchids and its evolutionary consequences: a spasmodic journey to diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84: 1-54.