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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
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Anemophilous flowers make certain adaptations.
(i) Anemophilous flowers are small, inconspicuous nonscented without-bright colours, nectar and fragrance.
(ii) Wind pollination also requires that the pollen grains are light and non-sticky so that they can be trans ported in wind currents.
(iii) They often possess well-exposed stamens (so that the pollens are easily dispersed into wind currents), and large feathery stigma (plumose) to easily trap air-borne pollen grains.
(iv) Wind-pollinated flowers often have a single ovule in each ovary and numerous flowers packed into an in florescence.
(v) Stamens with long filaments, versatile and exposed anthers. E.g : Maize, grasses, wheat, jowar, coconut and sugarcane.