Myrmecophytes
Plants that host ANTS by providing shelter in specialized nesting structures or domatia (e.g., Beltian or Mullerian bodies) and sometimes provide food (e.g., food and pearl bodies; and EXTRAFLORAL NECTARS). Ant colony in turn provides the host plant with defense against encroaching foliage, nutrients via waste by-product and help with SEED DISPERSAL.
Year introduced: 2024
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Tree Number(s): B01.650.305
MeSH Unique ID: D000097543
Entry Terms:
- Myrmecophyte
- Myrmecophytic Ant-Plants
- Ant-Plant, Myrmecophytic
- Ant-Plants, Myrmecophytic
- Myrmecophytic Ant-Plant
- Myrmecophytic Ant Plants
- Ant Plants
- Ant Plant
- Plant, Ant
- Myrmecophytic Plants
- Myrmecophytic Plant
- Plant, Myrmecophytic
- Ant-Plants
- Ant-Plant