Claim · model-written summary
Janusia anisandra individuals bear both right- and left-styled flowers.
- Taxon
- Janusia anisandra
Janusia anisandrae0 - Outcome
- right and left‐styled flowerse0
- Setting
- Northeastern Brazile0
Verbatim
e0“Janusia anisandra (A. Juss.) Griseb (Malpighiaceae) shows right and left‐styled flowers in individuals occurring in an area of tropical dry forest in Northeastern Brazil”
Title
Elisangela Lucia de Santana de Bezerra; Ana Carolina Sabino‐Oliveira; Isabel Cristina Machado Austral Ecology 2023. doi:10.1111/aec.13402
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Mechanism Janusia anisandra has floral traits characteristic of neotropical Malpighiaceae that support a specialized oil-bee pollination system.
- Observation The six stamens comprise two major and four smaller stamens, expressing heteranthery.
- Observation Both floral morphs occur on the same individual, with style displacement to the right or left and one larger stamen.
- Observation The species is moderately self-compatible.
- Observation Four Centris bee species visited both floral morphs.
- Observation Centris aenea and C. fuscata were the main pollinators and made 65% of visits.
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