Pollination ecology of Ecuadorian Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae): How generalized are morphologically specialized flowers?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-34

  Wolff, Doris ^a   Meve, Ulrich ^a   Liede Schumann, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asclepiadoideae; Ditassa; Generalization; Jobinia; Orthosia; Phenology; Pollination systems; Scyphostelma; Specialization

Indexed keywords

APOCYNACEAE; APOIDEA; ASCLEPIADEAE; ASCLEPIADOIDEAE; CYNANCHUM; DITASSA; HEXAPODA; JOBINIA; ORTHOSIA (ANGIOSPERM); OXYPETALUM;

EID: 36749048691     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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