Breeding system and floral visitors of veratrum album subsp. Oxysepalum (melanthiaceae)

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-46

  Kato, Yuuki ^a   Araki, Kiwako ^a,b   Ohara, Masashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Andromonoecy; Clonal growth; Mast seeding; Monocarpy; Self incompatibility

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MELANTHIACEAE; VERATRUM; VERATRUM ALBUM;

EID: 68949190763     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2009.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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