Inflorescence architecture affects pollinator behaviour and mating success in Spiranthes sinensis (Orchidaceae)

New Phytologist

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 196-203

  Iwata, Tatsunori ^a   Nagasaki, Osamu ^b   Ishii, Hiroshi S ^c   Ushimaru, Atushi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toyonaka Municipal The Fourteenth Junior High School   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fruit production; Inflorescence architecture; Orchid; Pollinator attraction; Pollinia removal; Successive probes

Indexed keywords

BEE; FRUIT PRODUCTION; FRUIT SET; GEITONOGAMY; MATING SUCCESS; MONOCOTYLEDON; NATURAL SELECTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INFLORESCENCE; JAPAN; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; FRUIT; INFLORESCENCE; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORCHIDACEAE; SPIRANTHES SINENSIS; SPIRANTHES SINENSIS VAR. AMOENA;

EID: 82955249277     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03892.x     Document Type: Article

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