caa a22 4500 475806875 CHVBK 20180406123749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00984104 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00984104 Stroo A. Leiden Branch, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, P.O. Box 9514, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands aut Pollen morphological evolution in bat pollinated plants [Elektronische Daten] [A. Stroo] This study assesses to what extent bat pollination has acted as a selective force on pollen morphology. Earlier pollen studies have suggested convergent evolution of verrucate exine ornamentation. Furthermore pollen of bat pollinated plants has been reported to be bigger than that of plants pollinated by other means. The generality of these ideas is tested using a sample of 130 species of both bat pollinated plants and relatives with another mode of pollination. An analysis of pollen size, shape, aperture number and type, and ornamentation type of 35 plant groups in which a transition towards bat pollination occurred was performed and showed a significant effect for pollen size only. Bat pollinated plants have bigger pollen than their relatives. Pollen size was shown to correlate with style length. Pollen shape, aperture system and exine ornamentation are in general not very different in bat pollinated plants in comparison with their relatives. There is no consistent trend for rougher exines to be associated with bat pollination. Springer-Verlag, 2000 Pollen morphology nationallicence chiropterophily nationallicence exine ornamentation nationallicence style length nationallicence pollination syndromes nationallicence Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 222/1-4(2000-03-01), 225-242 0378-2697 222:1-4<225 2000 222 606 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stroo A. Leiden Branch, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, P.O. Box 9514, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 222/1-4(2000-03-01), 225-242 0378-2697 222:1-4<225 2000 222 606 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer