-
plants are generalists,
being pollinated by
insects in
several orders.
Entomophilous plant species have
frequently evolved mechanisms to make themselves...
- of
enormous numbers of
pollen grains. This
distinguishes them from
entomophilous and
zoophilous species (whose
pollen is
spread by
insects and vertebrates...
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Anemophilous flowering plants generally have incon****uous flowers.
Entomophilous (literally insect-loving)
plants produce pollen that is
relatively heavy...
- and New Zealand,
where it is
regarded as invasive.
Acanthus mollis is
entomophilous,
pollinated only by bees or
bumble bees
large enough to
force their...
- the
upper lip of the corolla, but lie over the
inferior lip.
After entomophilous pollination, the
corolla falls off and four
round achenes develop inside...
- (malacophilae). Most commonly,
flowers are insect-pollinated,
known as
entomophilous;
literally "insect-loving" in Gr****. To
attract these insects flowers...
-
attraction to
tears Dendrophilia:
preference of
trees or
other plants Entomophilous:
adapted for
pollination by
insects Extremophilia:
preference of living...
- be
partly anemophilous (wind-pollinated), but it is at
least partly entomophilous (insect-pollinated). Only one
insect species is
known to
pollinate it...
-
containing around 70
species in 6 genera.
Around half of
those species are
entomophilous,
using insects to dis****
their spores, a
characteristic found in no...
-
within a few
hours of the
flower opening. The
flowers are
primarily entomophilous (insect-pollinated), but can
occasionally be
anemophilous (wind-pollinated)...
