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Most zoophilous plants are adapted to attract reliable pollination agents by providing floral rewards such as nectar and pollen and by advertising their flowers with nongreen color and nonleafy odor, and facilitate pollination by protruding styles and stamens from flowers. The great diversity of angiosperm flowers is believed to be a product of coevolution and codiversification between plants and their pollinators.
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Kato, M., Kawakita, A. (2017). Biology of the Obligate Pollination Mutualism. In: Kato, M., Kawakita, A. (eds) Obligate Pollination Mutualism. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56532-1_3
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