Table 3.
Nectar sugar concentration and volume
| Sugar concentration (%) |
Volume (μL) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | mean ± s.d. | n | mean ± s.d. | |
| Small (horizontal) flowers | ||||
| Mara cong | 6 | 28·58 ± 0·93 | 5 | 0·37 ± 0·12 |
| Mara fili | 10 | 32·15 ± 0·63 | 10 | 0·80 ± 0·00 |
| Mara ince (Ma) | 0 | 2 | <1 | |
| Mara ince (MC) | 1 | 32·00 | 1 | 0·40 |
| Mara leuc | 10 | 32·95 ± 0·65 | 5 | 0·40 ± 0·10 |
| Mara mono | 8 | 30·68 ± 1·34 | 3 | 0·30 ± 0·00 |
| Sarc brac | 10 | 32·95 ± 0·87 | 6 | 0·55 ± 0·12 |
| Sarc prio | 7 | 33·92 ± 1·37 | 8 | 1·17 ± 0·41 |
| Sarc schw | <1 | |||
| Large (horizontal) flowers | ||||
| Halo azur | 15 | 28·13 ± 0·74 | 5 | 4·33 ± 0·94 |
| Hyps hirs | 12 | 34·17 ± 1·52 | 6 | 5·61 ± 1·66 |
| Hyps pogg | 10 | 33·70 ± 1·49 | 4 | 9·50 ± 1·91 |
| Hyps scan | 13 | 35·73 ± 1·17 | 4 | 8·50 ± 3·78 |
| Hyps viol | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mara sp.1 nov. | 11 | 29·81 ± 1·00 | 8 | 6·53 ± 1·87 |
| Mara purp | 11 | 31·27 ± 2·03 | 10 | 2·68 ± 0·30 |
| Trach brau | 20 | 30·50 ± 2·92 | 1 | 4 |
| Medium-sized (horizontal) flowers | ||||
| Mega gabo | 10 | 37·10 ± 1·44 | 3 | 6·26 ± 0·46 |
| Mega macr | 10 | 34·95 ± 1·79 | 1 | 5 |
| ‘Locked (horizontal)’ flowers | ||||
| Haum danc | 24 | 36·04 ± 4·67 | 5 | 5·90 ± 1·24 |
| Haum lieb | 10 | 40·70 ± 2·71 | 2 | 4·15 ± 0·21 |
| Thal geni | 0 | 0 | ||
| (Large) vertical flowers | ||||
| Afro rhiz | 10 | 25·35 ± 2·68 | 9 | 6·74 ± 2·81 |
| Atae conf | 27 | 26·94 ± 1·30 | 10 | 5·78 ± 1·67 |
| Mara cord | 12 | 30·46 ± 1·19 | 3 | 5·06 ± 2·65 |
| Mara mann | 11 | 27·27 ± 0·65 | 3 | ∼8·00 |
| Mara sp.2 nov. | 10 | 27·09 ± 0·33 | 10 | 5·85 ± 1·10 |
| Mara sp.3 nov. | 14 | 30·25 ± 1·71 | 3 | ∼8·00 |
| Mega tric | 12 | 27·70 ± 1·28 | 4 | 11 ± 1·15 |
| Thau dani | 0 | 0 | ||
| Thau sp.1 nov. | 12 | 27·04 ± 0·63 | 4 | 11 ± 1·15 |
n, number of flowers.