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Asclepias macropus

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales > Family: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae > Genus: Asclepias

Ecological interactions

Pollination

Insects
  > Hymenoptera
    > Pompilidae (spider-hunting wasps)
      > Hemipepsis. These wasps pollinate a number of different plant species in the Apocynaceae, Orchidaceae and Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae, including Asclepias macropus (Shuttleworth & Johnson, 2009, 2012).

Publications

  • Shuttleworth A, Johnson SD. 2009. New records of insect pollinators for South African asclepiads (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). South African Journal of Botany 75: 689–698.

  • Shuttleworth A, Johnson SD. 2012. The Hemipepsis wasp-pollination system in South Africa: a comparative analysis of trait convergence in a highly specialized plant guild. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 278-299.