Anthecology and reproductive system of Mourera fluviatilis (Podostemaceae): Pollination by bees and xenogamy in a predominantly anemophilous and autogamous family?

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-87

  Sobral Leite, Marcelo ^a   de Siqueira Filho, José Alves ^b   Erbar, Claudia ^c   Machado, Isabel Cristina ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO VALE DO SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allogamy; Anemophily; Aquatic plant; Atlantic Rain Forest; Entomophily; Lotic habitat

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; BEE; BIOMONITORING; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; HABITAT TYPE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SESSILE SPECIES; WATERFALL; WEED;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; AUGOCHLORA; AUGOCHLOROPSIS; HALICTIDAE; MOURERA FLUVIATILIS; PODOSTEMACEAE; TRIGONA SPINIPES;

EID: 79960015664     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Accorsi W.R. Contribuição para o estudo biológico e ecológico das Podostemaceae do Salto de Piracicaba III. An. Esc. Super. Agric. Luiz Queiroz 1951, 8:747-768.
2. Ameka G.K., Clerk G.C., Pfeifer E., Rutishauser R. Development morphology of Ledermanniella bowlingii (Podostemaceae) from Ghana. Plant Syst. Evol. 2003, 237:165-183.
3. Bawa K.S., Beach J.H. Evolution of sexual systems in flowering plants. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1981, 68:254-274.
4. Bezuidenhout A. The pollen of African Podostemaceae. Pollen et Spores 1964, 6:463-478.
5. Burke S. Missing values, outliers, robust statistics and non-parametric methods. LC GC Europe Online Supplement 2001, 5:19-24.
6. Cook C.D.K. Wind pollination in aquatic Angiosperms. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1988, 75:768-777.
7. Cook C.D.K. Aquatic Plant Book 1990, SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands.
8. Cook C.D.K., Rutishauser R. Podostemaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2007, vol. 9:304-344. Springer, Berlin, DE.
9. Cruden R.W. Pollen-ovule ratios: a conservative indicator of breeding systems in flowering plants. Evolution 1977, 31:32-46.
10. Dafni A., Kevan P.G., Husband B.C. Practical Pollination Biology 2005, Enviroquest Ltda Press, Canada.
11. Erdtman G. Handbook of Palynology 1969, Hafner Publishing, New York, USA.
12. Faegri K., van Der Pijl The Principles of Pollination Ecology 1979, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK.
13. Galen C., Plowright R.C. Testing the accuracy of using peroxidase activity to indicate stigma receptivity. Can. J. Bot. 1987, 65:107-111.
14. Gessner F., Hammer L. Ökologisch-physiologisch Untersuchungen an den Podostemaceen des Caroni. Int. Rev. Gesamten Hydrobiol. 1962, 47:497-541.
15. Grubert M. Podostemaceen-Studien. Teil 1. Zur Ökologie einiger venezolanischer Podostemaceen. Beitr. Biol. Pflanz 1974, 50:321-391.
16. Grubert M. Ecologia de fanerógamas de saltos tropicales adaptadas en forma extrema. Natúra 1991, 91:54-61.
17. IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística Atlas Nacional do Brasil: região Nordeste 1985, IBGE, Rio de Janeiro.
18. ITEP - Instituto de Tecnologia de Pernambuco, 2009. Precipitation dates. Available at (accessed August 2009). http://www.itep.br/LAMEPE.asp.
19. Jäger-Zürn I. Embryological and floral studies in Weddellina squamulosa Tul. (Podostemaceae Tristichoideae). Aquat. Bot. 1997, 57:151-182.
20. Khosla C., Moham Ram H.Y. Morphology of flower, fruit and seed in Polypleurum stylosum. Aquat. Bot. 1993, 46:255-262.
21. Khosla C., Sehgal A. Pollination biology of Indotristicha ramosissima (Podostemaceae; Tristichoideae). Aquat. Bot. 2009, 91:51-56.
22. Khosla C., Shivanna K.R., Moham Ram H.Y. Reproductive biology of Polypleurum stylosum (Podostemaceae). Aquat. Bot. 2000, 67:143-154.
23. Khosla C., Shivanna K.R., Moham Ram H.Y. Cleistogamy in Griffithella hookeriana (Podostemaceae). S. Afr. J. Bot. 2001, 67:320-324.
24. Leme E.M.C., Siqueira-Filho J.A. A Mata Atlântica: aspectos gerais. Fragmentos de Mata Atlântica do Nordeste - biodiversidade, conservação e suas bromélias 2006, 47-79. Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio, Rio de Janeiro, BR. J.A. Siqueira-Filho, E.M.C. Leme (Eds.).
25. Lobreau-Callen D., LeThomas A., Suarez-Cervera M. Caractères ultrastructuraux du pollen de quelques Podostémales. Affinités avec les Rosidae évoluées. C. R. Acad. Sci. 1998, 321:335-345.
26. Lloyd D.G., Schoen D.J. Self-and cross-fertilization in plants. I. Functional dimensions. Int. J. Plant Sci. 1992, 153:358-369.
27. Maêda J.M. Manual para uso de Câmara de Neubauer para contagem de grãos de pólen em espécies florestais 1985, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
28. Martin F.W. Standing and observing pollen tubes in the style by means of fluorescence. Stain Tech. 1959, 34:125-128.
29. Mohan Ram H.Y., Sehgal A. Biology of Indian Podostemaceae. Phytomorphology Golden Jubilee Issue 2001, 361-391.
30. Mukkada A.J. Some aspects of the morphology, embryology and biology of Terniola zeylanica (Gardner) Tulasne. New Phytol. 1969, 68:1145-1158.
31. Okada H., Kato M. Pollination systems inferred from pollen-ovule ratios of some species of Podostemaceae. Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 2002, 53:51-61.
32. Philbrick C.T. Some notes regarding pollination in a New Hampshire population of Podostemum ceratophyllum Michx (Podostemaceae). Rhodora 1981, 48:319-321.
33. Philbrick C.T. Aspects of floral biology, breeding system, and seed and seedling biology in Podostemum ceratophyllum (Podostemaceae). Syst. Bot. 1984, 9:166-174.
34. Philbrick C.T. Reproductive biology of freshwater aquatic Angiosperms: an introduction. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1988, 75:739-740.
35. Philbrick C.T., Bogle A.L. A survey of floral variation in five populations of Podostemum ceratophyllum Michx Podostemaceae. Rhodora 1988, 90:113-121.
36. Philbrick C.T. Podostemaceae (River-Weed family). Flowering Plants of Neotropics 2004, 302-304. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, UK. N. Smith, S.A. Mori, A. Henderson, D.W. Stevenson, S.V. Heald (Eds.).
37. Philbrick C.T., Les D.H. Evolution of aquatic angiosperm reproductive systems. Bioscience 1996, 46:813-826.
38. Philbrick C.T., Novelo A.R. New world Podostemaceae: ecological and evolutionary enigmas. Brittonia 1995, 47:210-222.
39. Philbrick C.T., Novelo A.R. Ovule number and seed size in Mexican and North American species of Podostemaceae. Aquat. Bot. 1997, 57:183-200.
40. Philbrick C.T., Novelo A.R. Flowering phenology, pollen flow, and seed production in Marathrum rubrum (Podostemaceae). Aquat. Bot. 1998, 62:199-206.
41. Philbrick C.T., Bove C.P., Stevens H.I. Endemism in neotropical Podostemaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 2010, 97:429-460.
42. Proctor M., Yeo P., Lack A. The Natural History of Pollination 1996, Timber Press, Portland, OR, USA.
43. R Development Core Team R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing 2010, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
44. Radford A.E., Dickinson W.C., Massey J.R., Bell C.R. Vascular Plant Systematics 1974, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, USA.
45. Regal P. Pollination by wind and animals: ecological and geographic patterns. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1982, 13:497-524.
46. Robinsohn I. Die Färbungsreaktion der Narbe, Stigmatochromie, als morpho-biologische Blütenuntersuchungsmethode. Sitzungsberichte Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math., Abt. 1924, 133:180-213.
47. Rutishauser R. Structural and developmental diversity in Podostemaceae (river-weeds). Aquat. Bot. 1997, 57:29-70.
48. Rutishauser R., Grubert M. The architecture of Mourera fluviatilis (Podostemaceae). I. Mature structures and leaf development. Bot. Helv. 1994, 104:179-194.
49. Rutishauser R., Grubert M. The architecture of Mourera fluviatilis (Podostemaceae): developmental morphology of inflorescences, flowers and seedlings. Am. J. Bot. 1999, 86:907-922.
50. Sculthorpe M.A. The Biology of Aquatic Vascular Plants 1967, Edward Arnold, London, UK.
51. Sehgal A., Sethi M., Moham Ram H.Y. Development of the floral shoot and pre-anthesis cleistogamy in Hydrobryopsis sessilis (Podostemaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 2009, 159:222-236.
52. Stebbins G.L. Self fertilization and population variability in the higher plants. Am. Nat. 1957, 91:337-354.
53. Stebbins G.L. Adaptative radiation of reproductive characteristics in Angiosperms. I. Pollination mechanisms. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1970, 1:307-326.
54. Tavares, A.S., 1997. Podostemaceae de alguns rios de água preta do Estado do Amazonas. Ph.D. Thesis, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Manaus, Brasil.
55. Tippery N.P., Philbrick C.T., Bove C.P., Les D.H. Systematics and phylogeny of neotropical riverweeds (Podostemaceae: Podostemoideae). Syst. Bot. 2011, 36:105-118.
56. Van Royen P. The Podostemaceae of the new world. Part I. Meded. Bot. Mus. Herb. Rijks Univ. Ultrecht 1951, 107:1-150.
57. Van Royen P. The Podostemaceae of the new world. Part II. Acta Bot. Neerl. 1953, 2:1-20.
58. Vogel S. Duftdrüsen im Dienste der Bestäubung. Über Bau und Funktion der Osmophoren. Akad. Wiss. Literatur. Math-Naturwiss. Kl 1963, 10:600-763.
59. Whitehead D. Wind pollination in the angiosperms: evolutionary and environmental considerations. Evolution 1969, 23:28-35.
60. Went F.A.F.C. Untersuchungen über die Podostemaceen III. Verhandl. Konink. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam 1926, 25:1-59.
61. Willis J.C. Studies in the morphology and ecology of Podostemaceae of Ceylon and India. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., Peradeniya 1902, 1:268-465.
62. Zapata T.R., Arroyo M.T.K. Plant reproductive ecology of a secondary deciduous tropical forest in Venezuela. Biotropica 1978, 10:221-230.
63. Zar J.H. Biostatistical Analysis 1996, Prentice-Hall International Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA. Third edition.