Claim · model-written summary
P. sonorae small size and fleshy leaves are interpreted as dry ecosystem adaptations.
- Taxon
- P. sonorae
Psittacanthus sonoraee0 - Outcome
- small size, fleshy leavese0
- Qualifier
- adaptations to dry ecosystemse0
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Verbatim
e0“The seasonal deciduousness of P. palmeri (including P. nudus ) and morphology of P. sonorae (small size, fleshy leaves) are clearly adaptations to dry ecosystems”
Title
Andrés Ernesto Ortiz-Rodriguez; Eydi Yanina Guerrero; Juan Francisco Ornelas Botanical Sciences 2018. doi:10.17129/botsci.1961
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Bursera-host specialist mistletoes form a strongly supported clade called the Bursera group.
- Observation The Bursera-host specialists diverged an estimated 7.89 Ma ago.
- Observation Relationships between P. nudus and P. palmeri were incompletely resolved.
- Observation P. palmeri was paraphyletic under current circumscription.
- Recommendation Plants collected at the P. nudus type locality in Honduras should be named P. palmeri.
- Mechanism P. palmeri seasonal deciduousness is interpreted as an adaptation to dry ecosystems.
- Association Mistletoe evolutionary history appears correlated with Bursera diversification.