Definition of Myrmecophytes. Meaning of Myrmecophytes. Synonyms of Myrmecophytes

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Definition of Myrmecophytes

Myrmecophyte
Myrmecophyte Myr"me*co*phyte`, n. [Gr. my`rmhx, my`rmhkos, ant + fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities. -- Myr`me*co*phyt"ic, a.

Meaning of Myrmecophytes from wikipedia

- Myrmecophytes (/mərˈmɛkəfaɪt/; literally "ant-plant") are plants that live in a mutualistic ****ociation with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different...
- own herbicide, they kill off all the plants in an area except for the myrmecophytes, or ant-plants, in which they reside. M. schumanni live in large clearings...
- plants and trees, such as thorns or branches; these hosts are known as myrmecophytes. Tetraponera species are closely related to the New World genus of ants...
- gut; others have hooks that enable them to attach to a mammal's fur. Myrmecophytes are plants that have coevolved with ants. The plant provides a home...
- food, but many herbivores avoid these plants; most Cecropia spp. are myrmecophytes, housing doli****rine ants of the genus Azteca, which vigorously defend...
- Urtica (80 species), and Cecropia (75 species). Cecropia contains many myrmecophytes. Urticaceae species can be found worldwide, apart from the polar regions...
- southeastern Nigeria. It is divided into four sub-species, of which three are myrmecophytes. Leonardoxa africana subsp. africana Leonardoxa africana subsp. gracilicaulis...
- the species is endemic to Brazil and Peru. Wheeler, W. M.; Bequaert, J. C. 1929. Amazonian myrmecophytes and their ants. Zool. Anz. 82: 10-39 v t e...
- Myrmecodia is a genus of epiphytic myrmecophytes (/mərˈmɛk.əˌfaɪt/, literally "ant-plant"), native to Southeast Asia and present in Indochina, Malaysia...
- insects thrown out by the ants are absorbed by the lenticular warts in myrmecophytes like Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia. Myrmecodia uses its lenticular warts...