Title
Notes on floral visitors in Seemannia sylvatica (Kunth) Hanstein (Gesneriaceae)
Date Issued
01 April 2012
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Pollination in Gesneriaceae commonly is associated with syndromes of ornithophily or melittophily, and usually others visitors are robbers of nectar. We present a note about the fauna that visit the flowers of Seemannia sylvatica in Cusco, where hummingbirds and insects were recorded visiting the flowers. Based on floral characteristics and behavior of floral visitors, we suggest that the flowers of S. sylvatica present an ornithophily syndrome. Therefore, only hummingbirds are pollinators, while the insects are not involved in pollination and only steal nectar from flowers.
Start page
11
End page
16
Volume
19
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ecología Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044817304
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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