Utente:Esculapio/Sandbox/Angraecinae e Sphingidae
The pollination biology of five aerangoid orchid species (Rangaeris amaniensis, Aerangis brachycarpa, Aerangis confusa, Aerangis thomsonii, and Aerangis kotschyana) was investigated in Kenya. Four of these have long spurs (>10 cm) and were pollinated by Agrius convolvuli and Coelonia fulvinotata. Aerangis confusa, which has relatively short spurs (ca. 4 cm), was pollinated by the short-tongued hawkmoths Hippotion celerio and Daphnis nerii.[1]
Amongst the Angraecinae:[2]
Note
modifica- ^ Martins DJ and Johnson SD, Hawkmoth pollination of aerangoid orchids in Kenya, with special reference to nectar sugar concentration gradients in the floral spurs, in Am. J. Bot., vol. 94, n. 4, 2007, pp. 650-659.
- ^ African Hawk Moths And African Orchids, in Yearbook of the South African Orchid Council - ORCHIDS South Africa, 2003, pp.59 - 65.
Bibliografia
modifica- An Atlas of Orchid Pollination: European Orchids.
- Luyt R., Johnson S.D., Hawkmoth pollination of the African epiphytic orchid Mystacidium venosum, with special reference to flower and pollen longevity (abstract), in Plant Systematics and Evolution, vol. 228, n. 1-2, Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 49–62, DOI:10.1007/s006060170036, ISSN 0378-2697.
- Martins D.J. and Johnson S.D., Hawkmoth pollination of aerangoid orchids in Kenya, with special reference to nectar sugar concentration gradients in the floral spurs, in American Journal of Botany, vol. 94, n. 4, aprile 2007, pp. 650-659, DOI:10.3732/ajb.94.4.650.
- Martins D.J. and Johnson S.D., Interactions between hawkmoths and flowering plants in East Africa: polyphagy and evolutionary specialization in an ecological context (abstract), in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 110, n. 1, settembre 2013, pp. 199-213, DOI:10.1111/bij.12107.