INBREEDING DETERRENTS. “Pollination by deception, however, can reduce self-pollination and encourage pollen flow over longer distances, thus promoting outbreeding. Although some food deceptive orchids are isolated through postzygotic reproductive barriers, sexually deceptive orchids lack post-mating barriers and species isolation is achieved via specific pollinator attraction.”
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0636-y
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022