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- Title
- <em>Hemitomes congestum</em>
- Author
- Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
- Keywords
- Hemitomes congestum
- Description
- Hemitomes congestum
- A flower of Hemitomes seen from above. The large yellow stigma is conspicuous. The very hairy nature of the inside surfaces of the petals is also evident. Why such a hairy flower? The hairs might keep small insects from climbing down into their flower and robbing the nectar. In that case, we would expect Hemitomes flowers to be pollinated by a long-tongued insect like a moth. The tongue of a moth could reach through the hairs down to the nectar at the bottom of the flower.
Return to the Hemitomes congestum [1] page or the Parasitic Plant Index [2].
- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Additional data
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copyright: Carlquist, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Parasitic Plants
- Botanical Name
- <em>Hemitomes congestum</em>
- Common Name
- Gnome Plant
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