Evolution Of Myrmecophytism In Western Malesian Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)

• Main Authors: Davies, Stuart J., Lum, Shawn K.Y., Chan, R., Wang, L.K.
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2001
• Subjects: SB Plant culture
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17729/1/EVOLUTION%20OF%20MYRMECOPHYTISM%20IN%20WESTERN%20MALESIAN%20MACARANGA%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17729/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00674.x/full

Plants inhabited by ants (myrmecophytes) have evolved in a diversity of tropical plant lineages. Macaranga includes approximately 300 paleotropical tree species; in western Malesia there are 26 myrmecophytic species that vary in morphological specializations for ant association. The origin and div...