Reproductive Biology and Pollination Ecology of Fritillaria michailovskyi Fomin (Liliaceae), Endemic to East Anatolia (Turkey)

Fritillaria is highly endangered in their natural habitats, and these species are perennial bulbous plants with an important medicinal ornamental value whose reproductive strategies adaptive evolution mechanisms still not fully clear. Therefore, the of endemic species, like michailovskyi Fomin to detect community structure diversity patterns plants. The current paper on strategy F. michailovskyi, a rare was carried out at Erzincan Horticultural Research Institute, Turkey. Our results indicate that flowering stages may be divided into eight phases. According pollination experiments pollen/ovule ratio, self-incompatibility index (SII) ex-situ population, indicated high levels xenogamy self-incompatibility. It determined mostly depended pollen vectors, effective pollinators were Apis mellifera Bombus terrestris. In addition, average seed number, germination, viability found as 144, 46%, 67%, respectively. stigma receptivity, grains, detected 83%, 252,000, 95%, study first report providing detailed explanation this which could aid genetic conservation valuable taxa.