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The pollination ecology of Gentiana cruciata (Gentianaceae) ‐specifics of a Bulgarian population in comparison to Dutch populations
Author(s) -
Kozuharova Ekaterina K.,
Anchev Mincho E.,
Popov Petar
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
nordic journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1756-1051
pISSN - 0107-055X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2003.tb00407.x
Subject(s) - biology , gentianaceae , pollination , gentiana , population , botany , range (aeronautics) , bionomics , ecology , larva , pollen , demography , materials science , sociology , composite material
This study deals with the pollination ecology of a population Gentiana cruciata in the Vitosha Mts., SW Bulgaria. Fortyeigth % of flowers bagged at bud stage developed into fruits. Flowers in the investigated population was visited actively by insects. Halictus bees constituted 34.5% of all insect visits. Visits by bumblebees (mainly Bombus hortorum) constituted 18.9% of all insect visits. All open‐pollinated flowers set fruit capsules and their seed set was high. The pollination biology of this population (at the south‐westem part of the distributional range of the species) is compared to that of populations in The Netherlands (at the north‐western margin of the distribution range of the species).