Ornithophily
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Ornithophily or bird pollination is the pollination of flowering plants by birds. This sometimes coevolutionary association is derived from insect pollination and is particularly well developed in som
Hummingbird Phaethornis longirostris on an Etlingera inflorescence
A lesser violetear
Inflorescences of Butea allow birds to perch on the stalk
Ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) at scarlet beebalm flowers (Monarda didyma)
Calceolaria uniflora
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Calceolaria uniflora is a perennial plant of the genus Calceolaria, known as the slipperworts. It is originally from Tierra del Fuego in the southern part of South America.
Ornithophily
…reducing the wastage of pollen. In tropical dry forests in southern India, ornithophilous flowers were found to bloom mainly in the hot dry season. Calceolaria uniflora, a species of Scrophularaceae from South America, has a special fleshy appendage on the lower lip of the flower that is rich in sugar. This is fed on…
Calceolaria uniflora
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Calceolaria uniflora