myrmecophytism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

myrmecophyte +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

myrmecophytism (uncountable)

  1. (biology) The situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.
    • 2015 December 3, “Fidelity and Promiscuity in an Ant-Plant Mutualism: A Case Study of Triplaris and Pseudomyrmex”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      In many cases myrmecophytism has evolved multiple times in a single genus (e.g., Macaranga) and in other cases it has evolved in just one clade (i.e., Vachellia).
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