TY  - JOUR
A1  - Driscoll, Colin
T1  - Pollination ecology of Tetratheca juncea (Tremandraceae) : finding the pollinators
T2  - Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia
N2  - Tetratheca juncea Smith (family Tremandraceae) is a terrestrial herbaceous plant now mainly found in the Lake Macquarie area of coastal NSW and listed as Vulnerable under Schedule 2 of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. This study carried out from July 2001 to June 2002 records the observation and identification of two species of native bee buzz-pollinating its flowers and describes a direct relationship between the first appearance of a pollinator and the commencement of seed set. Findings from this study with respect to the pollination ecology of Tetratheca juncea are: 
• There is a strong flowering period from September to January, though a number of flowers can be found on some plants across the geographic range of the plant in all months of the year; 
• Two species of native bee Lasioglossum convexum and Exoneura sp, were confirmed collecting pollen from the flowers by way of buzz pollination; 
• Fruiting only occurred in coincidence with flower pollination by these bees; 
• Flowering, seed set and seed release was a concurrent process while ever the bees were active; 
• The bees are polylectic and the sexual reproductive process in Tetratheca juncea appears to be pollinator-limited.
Y1  - 2003
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36845
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-368452
SN  - 0727-9620
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SP  - 133
EP  - 140
ER  -