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Indeed, in lineages that have pollinia, the speciation rate was 5.1% higher than in lineages that don’t, Givnish and colleagues report this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 25, 2015

Large butterflies like Danais," says Professor Robertson, "hold their wings still in sucking, spending more time on an umbel, but generally carrying pollinia.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

But if the bee went into the next flower with these pollinia sticking upright, she would simply put them into the same slits in the next flower, she would not touch them against the stigma.

From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.

Catasetum, pollinia of, adhering to bees' backs,  305;sensitiveness of flowers of,  307.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles

The number of pollinia varies; thus, in Orchis there are usually two, in Cattleya four, and in Laelia eight.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various