{"title":"ENTOMOPHILY AND ORNITHOCHORY IN THE INDIAN SANDALWOOD, SANTALUM ALBUM L. (SANTALACEAE)","authors":"P. SUVARNA RAJU, Aluri JACOB SOLOMON RAJU","doi":"10.24193/contrib.bot.57.11","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Santalum album is an evergreen tree species that flowers twice in a year with a gap of one month during May-September. It is hermaphrodite, obligately self-incompatible and entomophilous. The principal pollinators are bees and nymphalid butterflies while a species of hoverfly and potter wasp are additional pollinators in both flowering seasons. The fruits are fleshy, 1- or 2-seeded drupes and seed dispersal is ornithochorous. The study indicates that S. album is obligately vector-dependent for pollination and seed dispersal.","PeriodicalId":37521,"journal":{"name":"Contributii Botanice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contributii Botanice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24193/contrib.bot.57.11","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Environmental Science","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Santalum album is an evergreen tree species that flowers twice in a year with a gap of one month during May-September. It is hermaphrodite, obligately self-incompatible and entomophilous. The principal pollinators are bees and nymphalid butterflies while a species of hoverfly and potter wasp are additional pollinators in both flowering seasons. The fruits are fleshy, 1- or 2-seeded drupes and seed dispersal is ornithochorous. The study indicates that S. album is obligately vector-dependent for pollination and seed dispersal.
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Contributii Botanice is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing scientifically sound papers in the fields of Plant Systematics, Phytosociology, Plant Physiology and Morphology, Plant Ecology, Population Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Phytogeography, Phytopathology, Microbiology, Paleobotany, Plant Conservation and Cell/Molecular Plant Biology. Papers of mostly taxonomic nature or focussed on floristics and phytosociology will only be considered if they exceed the pure descriptive approach and have relevance interpreting patterns in the above mentioned plant sciences.
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