Abstract
Tambourissa exhibits an unusual spectrum of floral diversity, tightly linked, however, by a common ground plan. Divergent evolutionary trends have led to small, closed flowers and to secondarily open flowers, including the largest of theMonimiaceae. The myophilous and cantharophilous flowers attract pollinators by scent, colour, stigmatic nectar and pollen. Some species have attained monoecy with partial or complete self-incompatibility, others even dioecy. Extraordinary evolutionary trends include the differentiation of a hyperstigma, the carpel group formation within a gynoecium, the increasing disorder in carpel orientation with increase of carpel number, and the formation of a pseudoperianth by the sterile lobes of the floral cup.
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Endress, P.K., Lorence, D.H. Diversity and evolutionary trends in the floral structure ofTambourissa (Monimiaceae). Pl Syst Evol 143, 53–81 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984112
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