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Insect Pollination in the Cycad Genus Bowenia Hook, ex Hook. f. (Stangeriaceae) 1
Author(s) -
Wilson Gary W.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
biotropica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.813
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1744-7429
pISSN - 0006-3606
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00557.x
Subject(s) - cycad , pollination , hook , biology , pollen , genus , botany , pollinator , structural engineering , engineering
All confirmed records of entomophilic pollination in cycads are for species in the Zamiaceae. This paper presents details of entomophily in both species of Bowenia in the Stangeriaceae. Seed set in female cones from which wind and water‐borne pollen, but not insects, was excluded, indicates that pollination is obligately entomophilous. The pollination vectors are Miltotranes weevils and the relationships are species‐specific and possibly coevolutionary.