Beetle pollination of the fruit-scented cones of the South African cycad Stangeria eriopus

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1722-1730

  Procheş, Şerban ^a   Johnson, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anemophily; Cycads; Deceptive pollination; Dioecious plants; Entomophily; Fermented fruit mimicry; GC MS; Nitidulidae; Stangeria

Indexed keywords

ANEMOPHILY; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIOECY; ENTOMOPHILY; ESTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIMICRY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SCENT MARKING; VOLATILE ELEMENT;

COLEOPTERA; CYCADOPSIDA; CYCAS; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NITIDULIDAE; STANGERIA; STANGERIA ERIOPUS; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 70349694560     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800377     Document Type: Article

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