A Review on the Pollination of Aroids with Bisexual Flowers

Author(s)
Pedro Díaz Jiménez, Heiko Hentrich, Pedro Adrián Aguilar-Rodríguez , Thorsten Krömer, Marion Chartier, M. Cristina MacSwiney G. , Marc Gibernau
Abstract

This paper presents an exhaustive review of the current knowledge on pollination of Araceae genera with bisexual flowers. All available studies on floral morphology, flowering sequence, floral scent, floral thermogenesis, floral visitors, and pollinators were carefully examined, with emphasis on the species-rich genera Anthurium Schott, Monstera Adans., and Spathiphyllum Schott. Genera with bisexual flowers are among the early-diverging lineages in Araceae, but present adaptations in their floral ecology to a great variety of pollination vectors, such as bees, beetles, flies, and, unusually, wind. These clades have developed highly derived pollination systems, involving the use of floral scent as a reward. We conclude that floral scent chemistry plays a key role in the pollination biology of the plants and that, in some genera, reproductive isolation through variation in the emitted floral volatile compounds may have been the decisive factor in the speciation processes of sympatric species.

Organisation(s)
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
External organisation(s)
Universidad Veracruzana, Deutsche Homöopathie-Union DHU-Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG, Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli
Journal
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Volume
104
Pages
83-104
No. of pages
22
ISSN
0026-6493
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3417/2018219
Publication date
2019
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
106008 Botany, 106012 Evolutionary research, 106042 Systematic botany
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/a-review-on-the-pollination-of-aroids-with-bisexual-flowers(a2bd2546-0fed-44a7-9d49-f110e8a83e27).html