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The floral biology ofTetrastylis ovalis and its pollination by bats was studied in southeastern Brazil. The flowers ofT. ovalis seem more fitted to bat-pollination than those ofPassiflora mucronata, the other known chiropterophilous passionflower. Two species of bats were observed visiting flowers ofT. ovalis: the phyllostomidsGlossophaga soricina andRhinophylla pumilio. Due to the attributes ofTetrastylis, its presumed primitiveness and a better defined bat-pollination syndrome we suggest that chiropterophily evolved independently in the former genus and inPassiflora.
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Buzato, S., Franco, A.L.M. Tetrastylis ovalis: A second case of bat-pollinated passionflower (Passifloraceae). Pl Syst Evol 181, 261–267 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00937450
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