Claim · model-written summary
Males produced more flowers per catkin than females in both Salix exigua and Salix nigra.
- Taxon
- S. exigua and S. nigra
Salix nigra
Salix exiguae1 - Outcome
- flowers per catkine1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- femalese1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“We observed no sexual dimorphism in preseason buds per branch in S. exigua but did find that males produced more flowers per catkin and more catkins per branch than females in both S. exigua and S. nigra”
Title
Reproductive Sexual Dimorphisms in Two Willow Species, Salix exigua Nutt. and Salix nigra Marshall
Nan Hu; Haley Hale; Brian Sanderson; et al. International Journal of Plant Sciences 2023. doi:10.1086/726623
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Association Salix exigua showed no sexual dimorphism in preseason buds per branch compared with females.
- Association Males produced more catkins per branch than females in both Salix exigua and Salix nigra.
- Mechanism Higher flower numbers in males are consistent with intrasexual selection among males.