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Describe any three adaptations in anemophilous flowers.
Give adaptations in anemophilous flowers.
Give any four adaptations of anemophilous flowers.
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Solution
- The flowers are small, inconspicuous, colourless, and without nectar and fragrance (odour).
- The pollen grains are light in weight, dry and produced in large numbers to increase chances of pollination considering the wastage of pollen grains.
- Stigma is feathery enough to trap pollen carried by wind currents.
- Stamens are exserted with long filaments and versatile anthers.
- Stamens and stigmas are exposed to air currents.
Notes
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