Flower and Fruit Visitors of Marcgravia longifolia in Amazonian Peru

E. R. Tirado Herrera; T. Franke; C. Knogge; J. Skrabal; E. W. Heymann

doi:10.1055/s-2003-40731

Plant Biology, Table of Contents

Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2003; 5(2): 210-214
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40731

Original Paper

Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Flower and Fruit Visitors of Marcgravia longifolia in Amazonian Peru

E. R. Tirado Herrera¹ ^, ² , T. Franke³ , C. Knogge¹ , J. Skrabal³ ^, ⁴ , E. W. Heymann¹

¹Abteilung Verhaltensforschung und Ökologie, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany
²Facultad de Ciéncias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Perú
³Department Biologie I, Biodiversitätsforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
⁴Institut für Biologie - Systematische Botanik und Pflanzengeographie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

We recorded nectarivorous and frugivorous visitors of Marcgravia longifolia (Marcgraviaceae) at the Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in the northeastern Peruvian Amazonia. M. longifolia belongs to the subgenus Plagiothalamium, with downward facing flowers. A glossophagine bat, probably Anoura caudifer, was identified as a potential pollinator. Three primate species - Saguinus fuscicollis, Saguinus mystax and Callicebus cupreus - were recorded as potential seed dispersers. This is the first documentation of primate seed dispersal of a species from the family Marcgraviaceae.

Key words

Marcgravia - pollination - chiropterophily - seed dispersal - primates - Saguinus - Callicebus

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E. W. Heymann

Abteilung Verhaltensforschung und Ökologie Deutsches Primatenzentrum

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37077 Göttingen

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Email: eheyman@gwdg.de

Section Editor: G. Gottsberger