Contrasting Pollination Systems of Wild Unction and Devil's Potato Root (Apocynaceae) on San Salvador: Preliminary Observations and Analyses

Suzanne Koptur,*1 Tatyana Livshultz,2 Gretchen Ionta,3 and Ching-Wen Tan4 1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 2Department of Botany, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103 3Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061 4National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; present address: Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Castanea

• Publication date

  2019-05-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2179/0008-7475.84.1.81
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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