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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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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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Urtica (80 species), and
Cecropia (75 species).
Cecropia contains many
myrmecophytes.
Urticaceae species can be
found worldwide,
apart from the
polar regions...
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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...
- 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...
- "Ant
species confer different partner benefits on two
neotropical myrmecophytes". Oecologia. 143 (3): 387–395. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1817-7. JSTOR 20062261...
- 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...
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Tetraponera make
their nests.
Plants that
provide myrmecodomatia are
called myrmecophytes. The
variety of the
plants that
provide myrmecodomatia, and the ranges...
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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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others being Anthorrhiza, Hydnophytum, Myrmephytum, and Squamellaria.
Myrmecophytes, or ant plants, live in a
mutualistic ****ociation with a
colony of ants...
