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Agents of Pollination
- Wind
- Anemophilous Flowers
- Small and not showy
- No nectar or scent
- Many flowers
- Stigmas are large, feathery and hanging out
- Maize, wheat, rice, paddy
- Water
- Hydrophilous Flowers
- Mature male flower submerged in water, gets detached and floats.
- Water currents bring male flowers in contact with the female flowers for the transfer of pollen grains
- Produce large quantities of pollen grains
- Hydrilla and Vallisneria etc- examples
- Animals
- Zoophilous flowers
- Lots of nectar
- No scent
- Brightly coloured
- Rafflesia is pollinated by elephants
- Birds, snails, bats, humming birds, honey thrushes - main animals
- Insects
- Entomophilous Flowers
- Brightly coloured and showy
- Large flowers
- Sweet smell
- Nectar
- Sticky pollens and stigme