[Aroid-l] Myrmecophilous Monstera????

**A* B* <e*@earthlink.net>**

While we are on the subject of shingling aroids - A friend of mine

recently got back from Panama where she was doing some field work, and

told me of how she found ants living under the juvenile shingling

foliage of a particular Monstera species she collected as an herberium

specimen. I had never heard of this occurring, and was curioius if ants

do regularly live under the shingle phase leaves in a mutualistic

relationship, as they are well-known to do in Hoya imbricata as well as

several species of Dischidia with similar shingling habits. I just

figured if it did regularly occur I would have heard about it by now.

Would be curious if ants are present in Rhaphidophora as well.

Just curious!

Adam

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