The plant is impervious to the pollen damage ants usually cause.
Tag - entomophily
Erin Zimmerman
Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna
Ant–plant associations are widely diverse and distributed throughout the world, leading to complex ecological networks. Regarding ant–plant mutualism, ant pollination is a very rare interaction and few studies have...
Alex Assiry
Plant-animal interactions deal with wildfires in unexpected ways
A guest post by Yedra García, María Clara Castellanos and Juli G. Pausas Wildfires might seem like dramatic events, even in ecosystems where they are fully natural. Yet plants and animals have evolved all sorts of...
Guest Author
Snails as … pollinators (!?)
Always on the look-out for interesting and/or quirky plant stories, I was really pleased to have chanced upon this delightful item amongst one of the many sources I scour continually on your behalf to unearth such phyto...
Nigel Chaffey
Nectary spur anatomy of selected Aeridinae
The nectary spur is a characteristic feature of Aeridinae; a large, orchid subtribe displaying diverse pollination strategies. Stpiczyńska et al. describe and compare its anatomy for a range of entomophilous and...
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