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Title
<em>Hemitomes congestum</em>
Author
Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
Keywords
Hemitomes congestum
Description
Hemitomes congestum
A flower of Hemitomes seen from above. The large yellow stigma is conspicuous. The very hairy nature of the inside surfaces of the petals is also evident. Why such a hairy flower? The hairs might keep small insects from climbing down into their flower and robbing the nectar. In that case, we would expect Hemitomes flowers to be pollinated by a long-tongued insect like a moth. The tongue of a moth could reach through the hairs down to the nectar at the bottom of the flower.

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Publisher
Botanical Society of America
Additional data
copyright: Carlquist, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
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Botanical Name
<em>Hemitomes congestum</em>
Common Name
Gnome Plant
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