Sexual deception as a pollination strategy investigated in three Pterostylis greenhood orchids in New Zealand
Background and Aims Sexual deception is a species-specific pollination strategy commonly found in Orchidaceae. Sexually deceptive orchids lure male insect pollinators by mimicking the sex pheromones and/or appearance of female insects, which elicit copulatory behaviour with the flower by the male i...
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University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10793 |