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American Journal of Botany, Vol 84, 41, Copyright © 1997 by Botanical Society of America, Inc.

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY

Patterns of color and nectar variation across an Ipomopsis (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

EJ Meléndez-Ackerman

Hybridization may uncouple adaptive trait combinations that are present in parental species I studied variation in flower color and reward quality across a hybrid zone of Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba. Individuals from hybrid populations showed considerable variation in flower color using corolla reflectance measurements. Flower spectra of such individuals were either intermediate or else resembled those flowers from the parental species. Ipomopsis aggregata populations had consistently higher nectar production rates and higher nectar standing crops than either I. tenuituba or hybrids. Ipomopsis aggregata flowers also produced more dilute nectar than those of hybrids and I. tenuituba. but the actual concentration values were quite variable among populations of the same type. Overall, the nectar quality of hybrid flowers most resembled that of I. tenuituba flowers. Based on the observed interpopulation patterns of color-reward associations in this hybrid zone. pollinators should be able to discriminate against I. tenuituba and hybrid populations and against most individuals within hybrid populations. However, they may visit those hybrids that resemble the most rewarding flower type (I. aggregata). The results emphasize the need for studies that address how hybridization affects subsequent plant fitness and the evolutionary dynamics of the species involved.


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