Claim · model-written summary
Female Lasioglossum bees were the most frequent visitors and only pollinators during 32 hours over two years.
- Taxon
- Cypripedium henryi Rolfe
Cypripedium henryie0 - Interactor
- Lasioglossum beese1pollinator
- Outcome
- most frequent visitors and the only pollinatorse1
- Qualifier
- 32 h of observations over 2 yearse1
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Verbatim
e0“The pollination ecology of Cypripedium henryi Rolfe”
e1“In the total 32 h of observations over 2 years, female Lasioglossum bees were found to be the most frequent visitors and the only pollinators.”
Title
Pollination of the lady's slipper Cypripedium henryi Rolfe (Orchidaceae)
PENG LI; YI-BO LUO; YIN-XIA DENG; et al. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00767.x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Cypripedium henryi flowers are self-compatible but require pollen vectors for reproduction.
- Observation The orchid flower offers no reward, and most of more than 15 visitor insects only alighted or rested.
- Observation Female Lasioglossum bees revisited the same orchid flowers frequently.
- Observation Only L. sauterum among three visiting Lasioglossum species carried pollen.
- Observation L. flavohirtum was too large and climbed out through the flower entrance.
- Observation L. sichuanense appeared morphologically capable of pollination, but collected bees carried no C. henryi pollen.
- Mechanism The authors speculate that the orchid’s scent discourages L. sichuanense from entering.
- Observation L. sauterum fits the flower morphologically, but some repeat visits do not pollinate after pollen removal.