Scent‐mediated bee pollination and myrmecochory in an enigmatic geophyte with pyrogenic flowering and subterranean development of fleshy fruits
Ian Kiepiel,
Steven D. Johnson
Abstract:PremiseVolatile emissions from flowers and fruits play a key role in signalling to animals responsible for pollination and seed dispersal. Here, we investigated the pollination biology and chemical ecology of reproduction in Apodolirion buchananii, an African amaryllid that flowers in a leafless state soon after grassland vegetation is burnt in the dry late‐winter season.MethodsPollinators were identified through field collection and pollen loads were quantified. Floral traits including spectral reflectance an… Show more
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