Fragrance analysis of euglossine bee pollinated orchids from Soconusco, south-east Mexico

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-134

  Del Mazo Cancino, Alejandro ^a   Damon, Anne ^a  

^a College of the Southern Frontier ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Catasetum integerrimum; Cycnoches ventricosum; Gongora galeata; Mormodes lineata; Notylia barkeri

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; CATASETUM; CYCNOCHES; GONGORA; MORMODES; NOTYLIA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 34347379080     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2007.00185.x     Document Type: Note

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