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Pouyannian mimicry
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English
Etymology
Coined 1982 by Georges Pasteur, after Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne, who described the behaviour in orchids in a 1916 paper.1916, H. Correvon, M. Pouyanne, "A curious case of mimicry in Ophrys", Journal de la Société nationale d'horticulture de France, 4:29-47.
Noun
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en biology botany A type of mimicry exhibited by some plants, whereby certain flower parts resemble a (female) potential mate for a male of a pollinator species, thus inducing pseudocopulation.
2017, Wiley Blevins, Ninja Plants, Lerner Publishing Group (Twenty-First Century Books), page 52,
The plant world is full of mimics. In Pouyannian mimicry, a flower mimics a female insect to attract the right male pollinator.
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Further reading
Pseudocopulation
Convergent evolution