Distyly (Evolution 🧬)

Distyly is a breeding system in plants that is characterized by two separate flower morphs, where individual plants produce flowers that have either long styles and short stamens or short styles and long stamens. However, distyly can refer to any plant that shows some degree of self-incompatibility and has two morphs if at least one of the following cha...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distyly

#Distyly #Genetics #Evolution #Pollination #PlantMorphology #PlantReproduction

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Flower display and temperature in #RoyalIrises (Iris section #Oncocyclus, Iridaceae)
Pollinators preferred larger artificial flowers for overnight shelter.

#Pollination | #Selection | #FloralTraits | #ShelterReward

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf104

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)’ in @AnnBot by Ana Luisa Arantes Chaves and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8)

👉 https://doi.org/qmbh

#AoBpapers #PlantScience #Pollination #FloralBiology #Cyperaceae #PlantEcology

🌳 One tree becomes a forest. A banyan expands by aerial prop roots that descend from branches, touch earth, and thicken into secondary trunks, letting one living individual spread outward like an entire grove. Inside each fig, a tiny pollinator wasp keeps the cycle going.

✍️ Explore the science of spreading permanence: https://TPC8.short.gy/HCHv2a6A

🌱 One becomes many yet remains one.

#Banyan #Trees #Ecology #Evolution #Botany #Nature #Pollination #Biodiversity #Culture #TPC8

These ancient #plants attract #pollinators by getting hot https://www.npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5637486/ancient-heat-producing-plants-glow-infrared-scent-not-color

Infrared radiation is an ancient #pollination signal: Wendy Valencia-Montoya et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1728

"long before brightly colored flowers evolved, these plants would metabolically rev themselves up when they had pollen at the ready. Nocturnal #insects such as #beetles could then see the heat from afar and home in on the target. These heat-producing #cycads exist today in tropical forests around the world"

Sissi Lozada-Gobilard et al. investigated flower display and temperature in #RoyalIrises (Iris section #Oncocyclus, Iridaceae) .

#Pollination | #Selection | #FloralTraits | #ShelterReward

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf104

Not all flower visitors are equally helpful to the flower; separately tracking bees that buzz to release pollen and bees that steal pollen from flowers in a bunch of Chamaecrista species shows how tracking visitation alone would misrepresent the interactions

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70758

#science #ecology #pollination