کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2179900 1095092 2010 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The gynoecium of male Anchietea pyrifolia (Violaceae): Preserved structure with a new function
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The gynoecium of male Anchietea pyrifolia (Violaceae): Preserved structure with a new function
چکیده انگلیسی

Structure of inflorescences and flowers and flowering behaviour are reported for the woody liana Anchietea pyrifolia (Violaceae) from Brazil. The specimen studied is grown for some decades now in the greenhouses of Halle Botanical Garden and turned out unisexually male, which adds a further example of dioecism to the family Violaceae, in which this type of sex distribution is rarely encountered. The flowers are exceptional also for the strongly asymmetric anterior petal, which represents a rare case of a species with enantiomorphic flowers pollinated by Lepidoptera. They have a fully developed gynoecium with a complicated architecture comparable to the pistil of bisexual Violaceae flowers, though without ovules. The style head is capable to release viscose liquid on tactile stimulation or pressure, which is known to act as pollen-gathering mechanism in bisexual Violaceae species with usually dry pollen and buzz-pollination. This function has switched in male A. pyrifolia to a mechanism for efficient pollen release mediated by insect pollinators from its short-lived flowers.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants - Volume 205, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 429–433
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