Pouyannian mimicry

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    A type of mimicry exhibited by some plants, whereby certain flower parts resemble a (female) potential mate for a male of a pollinator species, thus inducing pseudocopulation.

    不可数 生物 植物学

    2017, Wiley Blevins, Ninja Plants, Lerner Publishing Group (Twenty-First Century Books), page 52, The plant world is full of mimics. In Pouyannian mimicry, a flower mimics a female insect to attract the right male pollinator.

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Coined 1982 by Georges Pasteur, after Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne, who described the behaviour in orchids in a 1916 paper.

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