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Myrmecophytes (/mərˈmɛkəfaɪt/;
literally "ant-plant") are
plants that live in a
mutualistic ****ociation with a
colony of ants.
There are over 100 different...
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eventually undergo abscission from the plant.
Glands are used by
myrmecophyte plants to feed
their ant symbiotes.[citation needed] "Gland". Dictionary...
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Southeast Asia and is
considered critically endangered in Singapore. It is a
myrmecophyte as ants live in its tuber, also
known as a caudex, and
pollinate its...
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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...
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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...
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African ****gany, afzelia, lenke, lengue, apa, or doussi, is a
Myrmecophyte tree
species in the
family Fabaceae. It
occurs in Benin,
Burkina Faso...
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Duroia hirsuta is a
myrmecophyte tree
species from the
Amazon Forest. It is one of some 37
species of Duroia,
which are
shrubs or
canopy trees in the family...
- M. (May 2006). "Co-existence of ants and an
arboreal earthworm in a
myrmecophyte of the
Indian Western Ghats: anti-predation
effect of the
earthworm mucus"...
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known as
bullhorn acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn tree and
myrmecophyte native to
Mexico and
Central America. The
common name of "bullhorn" refers...
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Urtica (80 species), and
Cecropia (75 species).
Cecropia contains many
myrmecophytes.
Urticaceae species can be
found worldwide,
apart from the
polar regions...
