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    Specimen 1 is an insect-pollinated flower, as evidenced by its large, showy size and bright color, rough and sticky pollen grains, sticky stigma, many anthers, and hanging stamens bearing monadelphous anthers. Specimen 2 is a wind-pollinated maize cob, shown by its inconspicuous, small, apetalous spikelet flowers with long protruding stamens and feathery hanging stigma and style allowing for wind pollination.

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    Specimen 1 is an insect-pollinated flower, as evidenced by its large, showy size and bright color, rough and sticky pollen grains, sticky stigma, many anthers, and hanging stamens bearing monadelphous anthers. Specimen 2 is a wind-pollinated maize cob, shown by its inconspicuous, small, apetalous spikelet flowers with long protruding stamens and feathery hanging stigma and style allowing for wind pollination.

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    Spot Identification Pollination

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    Sameeha Noor
    Specimen 1 is an insect-pollinated flower, as evidenced by its large, showy size and bright color, rough and sticky pollen grains, sticky stigma, many anthers, and hanging stamens bearing monadelphous anthers. Specimen 2 is a wind-pollinated maize cob, shown by its inconspicuous, small, apetalous spikelet flowers with long protruding stamens and feathery hanging stigma and style allowing for wind pollination.

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    Identification

    Pollination
    SPECIMEN 1

    Identification: Insect pollinated flower/ Entomophilous flower


    Reasons:
    • Flower is Large, showy or brightly coloured.
    • Pollen grain rough, sticky, spiny
    • Stigma sticky
    • Many anthers
    • Anthers on monadelphous hanging stamen
    SPECIMEN 2

    Identification: Cob of Maize showing wind pollinated flower

    Reason for Identification:

    • Flower inconspicuous, not attractive, very small


    • Flowers are apetalous or without petals and are called
    spikelets
    • Stamens large as well as long and protruding out of the
    flower and the fixation of anther is versatile.
    • Stigma and style feathery and hanging out of the flower.

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