Insect Pollination in the Cycad Genus Bowenia Hook, ex Hook. f. (Stangeriaceae)1

  1. Gary W. Wilson*

Article first published online: 15 MAR 2006

DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00557.x

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Biotropica

Biotropica

Volume 34, Issue 3, pages 438–441, September 2002

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Wilson, G. W. (2002), Insect Pollination in the Cycad Genus Bowenia Hook, ex Hook. f. (Stangeriaceae)1. Biotropica, 34: 438–441. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00557.x

Author Information

  1. Department of Tropical Plant Sciences James Cook University Cairns, Queensland 4870 Australia

*2 e–mail: E–mail: Gary.Wilson@jcu.edu.au

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 MAR 2006
  2. Article first published online: 15 MAR 2006
  3. Received 27 December 1999; revision accepted 17 November 2000

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Keywords:

  • Australia;
  • Bowenia;
  • Coleoptera;
  • Curculionoidea;
  • cycad;
  • entomophilous;
  • insect pollination;
  • Miltotranes.

ABSTRACT

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.

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