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723. GORTERIA DIFFUSA
Author(s) -
Duncan Graham,
Ellis Allan G.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
curtis's botanical magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8748
pISSN - 1355-4905
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8748.2011.01761.x
Subject(s) - petal , habitat , pollination , geography , biology , botany , ecology , pollen
The beetle daisy, Gorteria diffusa Thunb., is a South African and Namibian spring‐flowering annual with a very interesting pollination strategy involving insect‐mimicking petal spots, details of which are given here, in addition to notes on its history, habitat and cultivation, accompanied by a watercolour painting of the subsp. diffusa and a habitat photograph.