Mimicry & Deception in Pollination
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Dafni, A. 1983. Pollination of Orchis caspia – a nectarless plant which deceives the pollinators of nectariferous species from other plant families. Journal of Ecology 71: 467-474. In this study of the title species, Dafni contributes to basic knowledge about the nature of deceptive pollination systems and introduces the ideas of pollinators finding it hard to distinguish between a mimic and a model; the lack of nectar in this assumed mimic; as well as the notion that this type of pollination is not the result of co-evolution, per se, but rather evolution of pollinator exploitation by the orchid.
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