Claim · model-written summary
Male Rhagigaster discrepans tried to feed on the labellum and visited multiple flowers.
- Taxon
- Caladenia nobilis
Caladenia nobilist0 - Organ / stage
- labellume0
- Interactor
- R. discrepanse0pollinator
- Outcome
- attempted to feed from the surface of the labellume0
Verbatim
e0“Male R. discrepans attempted to feed from the surface of the labellum, often crawling to multiple flowers”
t0“Caladenia nobilis”
Title
R. D. Phillips; B. Bohman; G. R. Brown; et al. Plant Biology 2019. doi:10.1111/plb.13069
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Only male Rhagigaster discrepans among nine attracted insect species could remove and deposit pollen.
- Observation Male Rhagigaster discrepans showed no sexual attraction to the flowers.
- Observation Most Caladenia nobilis flowers produced little or no nectar.
- Observation Some flowers may supply enough sucrose to provide pollinators a meagre reward.
- Observation Floral colour resembled a sexually deceptive related species, except that species had a dull-red labellum.
- Observation Reproductive success was low and varied greatly across sites and years.
- Observation Most visitors were too small or large to remove orchid pollinia.
- Observation Several co-occurring thynnine wasp species did not respond to the orchid, suggesting attraction-stage filtering.
- Observation The authors identify a pollination strategy potentially intermediate between food deception and food reward.