Floral and reproductive biology of Commelina erecta L.(Commelinaceae) in a coastal dune system on the Gulf of Mexico

摘要: The most common sexual systems found in Commelinaceae species are hermaphroditic and andromonoecious, and although enantiostyly is also recognized in the family, it has only been recorded in a few species. The presence of different sexual systems (v.gr., andromonoecious and enantiostyly) in the same species is still unnoted. Commelina erecta is a common andromonoecious-enantiostylous species (i.e., it bears male, left-styled and right-styled flowers) of the coastal dunes of La Mancha in Veracruz, Mexico. Our aims were to determine: (1) the type of enantiostyly, (2) the floral morph-ratios in a population, (3) the differences in size of flowers structures among floral morphs, to (4) characterize the floral visitor community in the different floral morphs, and (5) evaluate differences in fruit set in the hermaphroditic flowers. We found that C. erecta in La Mancha is characterized by non-reciprocal monomorphic …