Beyond buzz‐pollination – departures from an adaptive plateau lead to new pollination syndromes

What is it about?

The enormous diversity of flowers is shaped by interactions with animal pollinators like bees, hummingbirds, bats or rodents. We show how complex changes in flower traits can accomodate a wide array of different pollinator groups while conserving the basic (ancestral) flower morphology in a group of cloudforest plants from South America.

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