entomophilous
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Origin of entomophilous
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The entomophilous ancestry of Pringlea is clearly shown by the occasional remnants of coloured markings in the petals, like those which in other flowers serve as finger-posts to visiting-insects, and are called nectar-guides.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Now the separation of the sexes, whether the plant were anemophilous are entomophilous, would most effectually bar self-fertilisation, and this may be the cause of so many trees and bushes being diclinous.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
Poterium sanguisorba is anemophilous; and Sanguisorba officinalis presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
If this view is correct, plants must have been rendered hermaphrodites at a later though still very early period, and entomophilous at a yet later period, namely, after the development of winged insects.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
There must also have been a period when winged insects did not exist, and plants would not then have been rendered entomophilous.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
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