myrmecophytism
English
editEtymology
editFrom myrmecophyte + -ism.
Noun
editmyrmecophytism (uncountable)
- (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], :
- 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).