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Sunbird surprise: A test of the predictive power of the syndrome concept

2017-07-01

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Floral syndromes are thought to be the product of convergent evolution, where the floral characters of unrelated species have evolved similar forms in response to shared pollinators. A contentious corollary is that floral form should be predictive of pollinators. In the forests of Uganda, we came upon the inflorescences of Thonningia sanguinea, a parasitic plant which previous literature suggested was part of a br...

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DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2016.11.015

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