Functional morphology and wasp pollination of two South American asclepiads (Asclepiadoideae-Apocynaceae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-93

  Wiemer, A P ^a,b   Sersic A N ^a   Marino, S ^a   Simoes A O ^c   Cocucci, A A ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Biología Floral IMBIV CONICET UNCba   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

asclepiads; functional morphology; Morrenia brachystephana; Morrenia odorata; pollination mechanism; pollinator effectiveness; wasps

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; WASP;

ANIMAL; APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOWER; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WASP;

ANIMALS; APOCYNACEAE; FLOWERS; POLLINATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WASPS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

APOCYNACEAE; APOIDEA; ASCLEPIADOIDEAE; MORRENIA; MORRENIA BRACHYSTEPHANA; MORRENIA ODORATA; POMPILIDAE;

EID: 84555178083     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr268     Document Type: Article

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