Abstract

Many flowers produce rewards, usually nectar or pollen or both. C. K. Sprengel (165), the founder of modern floral biology, was the first to report that flowers do not always reward pollinators; his observations were on the genus Orchis. Subsequent authors (7; 51; 66; 97; 99; 105; 186, p. 21; 195) have discussed various aspects of deceitful flowers that attract pollinators by resembling rewarding flowers or other objects.

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