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Plant Species Biology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 136-147, March 2025.The study investigated the volatile organic compounds profile of Daphne rodriguezii's floral aroma, a rare and threatened endemic species. Moths were identified as the main pollinators due to their evening and night activity. From a conservationist methodological perspective, plant proximity needs to be considered in this species.
Carles Cardona +2 more
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Ornamental Horticulture, 2021 Cycnoches haagii Barb. Rodr. is an epiphytic orchid very targeted by collectors, but no reference was found in the literature about its reproductive biology.
Vespasiano Borges de Paiva Neto +5 more
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Aerial litter mimicry: A novel form of floral deception mediated by a monoterpene synthase
Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 302-321, February 2025.We report the first pollination system in which a flower imitates aerial litter, which refers to the arboreal plant litter in a forest. Our findings demonstrated that Meiogyne heteropetala flower fooled the aerial litter specialist Loberus sharpi by mimicking aerial litter in size, colour and odour.
Ming‐Fai Liu +6 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2007 Raphiodon echinus é uma espécie de hábito rasteiro, que ocorre espontaneamente em áreas de caatinga. No presente trabalho foram observados a biologia reprodutiva desta espécie com o objetivo de contribuir com informações sobre sua ecologia da polinização.
Carla Tatiana de Vasconcelos Dias +1 more
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A primary study of breeding system of Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa
Scientific Reports, 2021 Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa has been used as a windbreak and for soil conservation and water retention. Previous studies focused on pharmacological effects and extraction of chemical components in this species, and very few explored the breeding system.
Feng Wang +9 more
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A new plant genus and species from south‐eastern Spain: Castrila latens (Rubieae, Rubiaceae)
TAXON, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 1001-1015, August 2024.Abstract A new genus and species, Castrila latens, native to the south‐eastern Iberian Peninsula, is described here for the first time and compared with its closest relatives. The plant is characterized by being annual, glabrous, having reduplicate leaves in whorls of (5)6–7, inflorescences capitate and involucrate, corolla shortly hypocrateriform and ...
Gabriel Blanca +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 2, February 2024.We evaluated reproductive success through artificial pollination to explore the reproductive characteristics of Vitex negundo var. heterophylla for the first time. From the results of fruit set, there is a mixed mating system dominated by outcrossing in V. negundo var.
Qing Zhang +6 more
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Allogamy, metaxenia and hybrids in orchids, what do we know about it?
Botanical SciencesOrchids are a diverse group of plants, also manifested in their great diversity of flowers. Despite this, orchids are pollinated either through autogamy or allogamy (geitonogamy and xenogamy). Although there are some autogamous orchids, the majority are
José Martín Barreda-Castillo +4 more
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Flowering biology and structure of floral nectaries in Galanthus nivalis L.
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2016 In Poland Galanthus nivalis L. is partially protected. The flowers of this species are one of the first sources of nectar and pollen for insects from February to April. The aim of this study was to present the flowering biology as well as the topography,
Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska +1 more
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Diversity, 2023 Fritillaria is highly endangered in their natural habitats, and these species are perennial bulbous plants with an important medicinal and ornamental value whose reproductive strategies and adaptive evolution mechanisms are still not fully clear ...
Meral Aslay +3 more
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