myrmecophytism en · NOUN
Etymology
From myrmecophyte + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.
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).
2015 December 3, “Fidelity and Promiscuity in an Ant-Plant Mutualism: A Case Study of Triplaris and Pseudomyrmex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: