Information om | Engelska ordet DOMATIA

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• kerrii scarious, small, basally fused to the petiole, domatia present, stomata irregularly anomocytic.
• These plants possess structural adaptations in the form of domatia where ants can shelter, and food bodies and extrafloral nectaries that provide ants with food.
• Three of the most common and important structural adaptations of ant plants are extrafloral nectaries, domatia, and (least commonly) Beltian bodies.
• The leaf blade is entire (unlobed or lobed in Sassafras) and occasionally with domatia (crevices or hollows serving as lodging for mites) in axils of main lateral veins (present in Cinnamomum).
• In 1973, Werner Rauh transferred this species into the genus Solanopteris, erected by Edwin Copeland in 1951 for a similar species, which he distinguished from Microgramma on the basis of the domatia on the rhizome, irregularly netted venation, and the fleshy texture of its leaf blades.
• Most domatia are inhabited either by mites or ants, in what can be a mutualist relationship, but other arthropods such as thrips may take parasitic advantage of the protection offered by this structure.
• Obligate acacia ants dwell in the gall-like domatia within the swolen stipular spines of African or Central American ant acacia species, and they also take the food (nectar or Beltian bodies) offered by the tree.
• On opening a few of these inrolled apices, egg cases similar to those found in leaf domatia are found; epiphyllous hepatics were also found.
• Leaflets arranged ± opposite, increasing in size from base to apex, first ovate then to elliptic and obovate; petiolule short with a pulvinule; blade base cuneate, margins smooth, flat, both surfaces smooth apart from undersides’ hair–tufts domatia and raised veins.
• They do so by attracting ants, via their extrafloral nectaries, and providing shelter for the ants in the form of the caudex and domatia, all while the ants prevent herbivory and provide nutrients to the plant.
• The ant species Petalomyrmex phylax, Aphomomyrmex afer, and Cataulacus mckeyi occupy swollen internodes or domatia of most subspecies of Leonardoxa africana and they feed on the nectaries usually at the base of leaflets and close to the midrib.
• It is a tree with paripinnate leaves with 4 to 14 elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets with domatia along the midrib, separate male and female flowers arranged in panicles, the fruit a brown capsule containing a reddish-brown seed with a brown aril.

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