A Review on Ornithophily in the Chinese F
中国植物区系的鸟类传粉现象

Ornithophily in the Chinese flora was reviewed.Literatures concerning floral visiting birds and ornithophilous(including potential) plant genera were evaluated;areal types and floral traits of the plant genera with confirmed ornithophily in China or elsewhere were also analyzed.Almost all the flower-visiting birds in China are Passeriformes.Ornithophily was found in more than 30 angiosperm families in China,which has been largely ignored.The floral characters of the ornithophilous plants in China were mostl...