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Mucuna holtonii

Synonyms: Mucuna andreana; Stizolobium holtonii (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Mucuna holtonii is a species of plant in the bean family, which is pollinated by bats. Bats are able to detect if the flowers have nectar using echolocation. After an initial bat visit during which nectar is removed, the petals are arranged in a different manner (altering the shape of the flower). As a result, the unique "echo fingerprint" of petal arrangement informs the bat whether nectar is present or absent. This trait appears to have coevolved with bats.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barbilla National Park II 29582 Costa Rica  
Braulio Carrillo National Park II 117843 Costa Rica  
Carara National Park II 12983 Costa Rica  
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  

Predators

Astraptes fulgerator (Skipper)[1]
Glossophaga commissarisi (Commissaris's long-tongued bat)[2]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Glossophaga commissarisi (Commissaris's long-tongued bat)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2"Call of the Bloom", Susan McGrath, National Geographic, March 2014
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0