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Thus, the series of events involved likely included colonization of amyrmecophyte tree species, starting with the two unrelated epiphytic plant species, followed by the Azteca ants, which later pruned other plant species that neighbored on or dispersed to the Cordia tree, and accompanied by the ant use of the domatia-like shelters of the Polytaenium.

Ant-plant-homopteran mutualism: how the third partner affects the interaction between a plan-specialist ant and itsmyrmecophyte host.

They may have nested in some othermyrmecophyte, or in hollow live stems of any of a number of second-growth tree species.

floridanus possesses any special adaptations for living in red mangroves, such as high salt tolerance, or whether the prevalence of hollow spaces in dead twigs of red mangroves may be indicative of amyrmecophyte that benefits from the presence of ants.

Influence of its associated ant species on the life history od themyrmecophyte Cordia nodosa in French Guiana.

Murase K, Itioka T, Nomura M, Yamane S (2003) Intraspecific variation in the status of ant symbiosis on amyrmecophyte Macaranga bancana, between primary and secondary forests in Borneo.