Orchid pollinaria (Orchidaceae) attached to stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Dominican amber

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 287-293

  Poinar, George ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apidae; Hispaniola; Insect pollinators; Orchids; Pollinaria; Proplebeia

Indexed keywords

BEE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TERTIARY;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HISPANIOLA;

EID: 84962246169     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: 2363717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2016/0556     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. ARGUE, C.L. (2012): The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Vol. 2: North of Florida and Mexico. - 202 pp.; New York (Springer).
2. BARONI URBANI, C. & SAUNDERS, J.B. (1980): The fauna of the Dominican Republic amber: The present state of knowledge. - Proceedings of the 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo; August 1980: 213-223.
3. BORBA, E.L. & SEMIR, J. (1999): Temporal variation in pollinarium size after its removal in species of Bulbophyllum: A different mechanism preventing self-pollination in Orchidaceae. - Plant Systematics and Evolution, 217: 197-204.
4. CONRAN, J.G., BANNISTER, J.M. & LEE, D.E. (2009): Earliest orchid macrofossils: Early Miocene Dendrobium and Earina (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) from New Zealand. - American Journal of Botany, 96: 466-474.
5. DARWIN, C. (1877): The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilized by insects (2nd ed.). - 295 pp.; London (John Murray).
6. DRAPER, G., MANN, P. & LEWIS, J.F. (1994): Hispaniola. - In: DONOVAN, S. & JACKSON, T.A. (eds.): Caribbean geology: An introduction: 129-150; Kingston (The University of the West Indies Publishers' Association).
7. DRESSLER, R.L. (1993): Phylogeny and Classification of the orchid family. - 314 pp.; Portland (Dioscorides Press).
8. th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo; August 1980: 619-632.
9. ENDRESS, P.K. (1994): Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of tropical flowers. - 511 pp.; Cambridge (Cambridge University Press).
10. GIVNISH, T.J. et al. (2015): Orchid phylogenomics and multiple drivers of their extraordinary diversification. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, (B), 282:1553-1563.
11. GUSTAFSSON, A.L.S., VEROLA, C.F. & ANTONELLI, A. (2010): Reassessing the temporal evolution of orchids with new fossils and a Bayesian relaxed clock, with implications for the diversification of the rare South American genus Hoffmannseggella (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae). - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10: 177. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-10-177.
12. ITURRALDE-VINCENT, M.A. & MACPHEE, R.D.E. (1996): Ageand paleographic origin of Dominican amber. - Science, 273: 1850-1852.
13. JOHNSON, S.D. & EDWARDS, T.J. (2000): The structure and function of orchid pollinaria. - In: DAFINI, A., HESSE, M. & PACINI, E. (eds.): Pollen and Pollination: 243-269; Vienna (Springer).
14. VAN DER PIJL, L. & DODSON, C. (1966): Orchid flowers: Their pollination and evolution. - 214 pp.; Coral Gables (University of Miami Press).
15. PACINI, E. & HESSE, M. (2002): Types of pollen dispersal units in orchids and their consequences for germination and fertilization. - Annals of Botany, 89: 653-664.
16. PACINI, E. (2009): Pollination Biology: orchids pollen dispersal units and reproductive consequences. - In: KULL, T., ARDITTI, J. & WONG, S.M. (eds.): Orchid biology, reviews and perspectives, 10: 187-218; Dordrecht (Springer).
17. POINAR Jr., G.O. (1992): Life in Amber. - 350 pp.; Stanford (Stanford University Press).
18. RAMÍREZ, S.R., GRAVENDEEL, B., SINGER, R.B., MARSHALL, C.R. & PIERCE, N.E. (2007): Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator. - Nature, 448: 1042-1045.
19. ROUBIK, D.W. (2000): Deceptive orchids with Meliponini as pollinators. - In: DAFNI, A., HESSE, M. & PACINI, E. (eds.): Pollen and pollination: 271-279; New York (Springer).
20. SCHLEE, D. (1990): Das Bernstein-Kabinett. - Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, (C), 28: 1-100.
21. SINGER, R.B., GRAVENDEEL, B., CROSS, H. & RAMIREZ, S.R. (2008): The use of orchid pollinia or pollinaria for taxonomic identification. - Selbyana, 29: 6-19.
22. TRAVERSE, A. (1988): Paleopalynology. - 600 pp.; Boston (Unwin Hyman).