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Image Title: White Flowers of the Ginger Zingiber longipedunculatum Pollinated by Female Amegilla Bees (Anthophoridae)
Image Credit: Shoko Sakai, Kyoto University
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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In the dark forest understory, white flowers of the ginger Zingiber longipedunculatum are pollinated by pollen-collecting female Amegilla bees (Anthophoridae). Ginger species in a Bornean forest show high diversity, but they were grouped into only three pollination guilds.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Three pollination guilds and variation in floral characteristics of Bornean gingers (Zingiberaceae and Costaceae)

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