| fungal diversity on fallen leaves of ficus in northern thailand. | fallen leaves of ficus altissima, f. virens, f. benjamina, f. fistulosa and f. semicordata, were collected in chiang mai province in northern thailand and examined for fungi. eighty taxa were identified, comprising 56 anamorphic taxa, 23 ascomycetes and 1 basidiomycete. common fungal species occurring on five host species with high frequency of occurrence were beltraniella nilgirica, lasiodiplodia theobromae, ophioceras leptosporum, periconia byssoides and septonema harknessi. colletotrichum and ... | 2008 | 18837113 |
| premature attraction of pollinators to inaccessible figs of ficus altissima: a search for ecological and evolutionary consequences. | adult life spans of only one or two days characterise life cycles of the fig wasps (agaonidae) that pollinate fig trees (ficus spp., moraceae). selection is expected to favour traits that maximise the value of the timing of encounters between such mutualistic partners, and fig wasps are usually only attracted to their hosts by species- and developmental-stage specific volatiles released from figs at the time when they are ready to be entered, oviposited in and pollinated. we found that ficus alt ... | 2014 | 24466217 |
| description of schistonchus altissimus n. sp. (nematoda: aphelenchoididae), an associate of ficus altissima in china. | a new nematode species was recovered from the syconia of ficus altissima from the residential area of huajingxincheng, guangzhou, guangdong province, china during a survey of nematode diversity. schistonchus altissimus n. sp. is characterised by having females with a short post-uterine sac, an ovoid spermatheca and a conoid tail with a mucron in the female, excretory pore located near the lip; and males with amoeboid sperm, a conoid tail without a mucron and three pairs of subventral papillae, n ... | 2013 | 26106743 |
| [spatial distribution of fig wasps in syconia of two monoecious ficus sp]. | in addition to pollinator fig wasps, there are several non-pollinating fig wasps associated with monoecious ficus sp. in order to understand how pollinator fig wasps and non-pollinating fig wasps are distributed across the same syconium, the spatial distribution of fig wasps associated with ficus altissima and f. benjamina were compared using the pedicle lengths of galls containing each species. the results indicate that in ficus altissima, the average pedicel length of galls containing eupristi ... | 2012 | 22467394 |
| ecology of parasite sycophilomorpha sp. on ficus altissima and its effect on the fig-fig wasp mutualism. | figs and their pollinating wasps are a classic example of an obligate mutualism. in addition, figs are parasitized by a suite of non-mutualistic wasps whose basic ecology is largely undescribed. sycophilomorpha (subfamily epichrysomallinae) fig wasps are ovule gallers and the genus contains only 1 described species. an undescribed sycophilomorpha species parasitized ficus altissima at xishuangbana, southwestern china. the wasp was observed ovipositing on the tiny immature figs that were still co ... | 2010 | 20561397 |
| interspecific variation of plant traits associated with resistance to herbivory among four species of ficus (moraceae). | to understand the defensive characteristics of interspecies varieties and their responses to herbivory damage, four species of ficus plants (ficus altissima, f. auriculata, f. racemosa and f. hispida) were studied. they were similar in life form, but differed in successional stages. of these, ficus altissima is a late successional species, f. hispida is a typical pioneer and f. auriculata and f. racemosa are intermediate successional species. we addressed the following questions: (1) what is the ... | 2004 | 15277244 |