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://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a2bd2546-0fed-44a7-9d49-f110e8a83e27