The morphological traits of female and male flowers of Ficus awkeotsang in different development stages,as well as the correlation between the flower development and the pollination/parasitization of fig wasp were studied by syconia markering,morphology anatomizing and controlled experiment in this paper.The result showed that the gall-flowers in the pre-female phase and female phase had no significant change in morphology,but the style and stigma of the female flowers linked to a long whip,which presented an upright tubular in the pre-female phase and the S-shaped curve in the female phase.After pollination/parasitization five days,the stigma of female and gall flowers grown yellow,and the style became drying out.After pollination/parasitization ten days,the pedicel of female and gall flowers extended,the flowers were obviously hierarchical,embryos developed rapidly and ovaries were plump,but the style and stigma were evidently wilted.The longevity of pollinator in syconia was not more than three days.This experiment would be of great significance on revealing the fig-fig wasp symbiosis mechanism.
GUO Shao-feng
,
CHEN You-ling
,
HUANG Mei-li
,
WU Wen-shan
. Morphological Study on Flower Development of Ficus awkeotsang[J]. Subtropical Plant Science, 2010
, 39(02)
: 10
-13
.
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1009-7791.2010.02.003