A Review on the Pollination of Aroids with Bisexual Flowers

Autor(en)

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

Abstrakt

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(en)

Department für Botanik und Biodiversitätsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidad Veracruzana, Deutsche Homöopathie-Union DHU-Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG, Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli

Journal

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Band

104

Seiten

83-104

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

0026-6493

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3417/2018219

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

106008 Botanik, 106012 Evolutionsforschung, 106042 Systematische Botanik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a-review-on-the-pollination-of-aroids-with-bisexual-flowers(a2bd2546-0fed-44a7-9d49-f110e8a83e27).html