Developmental adaptation of leaves in Podophyllum hexandrum for effective pollination and dispersal.

The article presents a study on the developmental adaptation of leaves in Podophyllum hexandrum for its effective pollination and dispersal in India. It stresses that the effective propagation of the endangered species is its unusual combination of traits related to sexual reproduction. It highlights the developmental stages of the specie which it uses as protection from herbivores at the first leaf of emergence stage and at the early fruit formation stage.