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- Title
Orthoptera, a new order of pollinator.
- Authors
Micheneau, Claire; Fournel, Jacques; Warren, Ben H.; Hugel, Sylvain; Gauvin-Bialecki, Anne; Pailler, Thierry; Strasberg, Dominique; Chase, Mark W.
- Abstract
Background and Aims: Pollinator-mediated selection and evolution of floral traits have long fascinated evolutionary ecologists. No other plant family shows as wide a range of pollinator-linked floral forms as Orchidaceae. In spite of the large size of this model family and a long history of orchid pollination biology, the identity and specificity of most orchid pollinators remains inadequately studied, especially in the tropics where the family has undergone extensive diversification. Angraecum (Vandeae, Epidendroideae), a large genus of tropical Old World orchids renowned for their floral morphology specialized for hawkmoth pollination, has been a model system since the time of Darwin.
- Subjects
POLLINATORS; ORCHIDS; FLOWERS; POLLINATION; ANGRAECUM
- Publication
Annals of Botany, 2010, Vol 105, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
0305-7364
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aob/mcp299