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Mucuna holtonii is a species of plant in the bean family, which is pollinated by bats.Bats are able to detect if the flowers have nectar using echolocation. [2] [3] After an initial bat visit during which nectar is removed, the petals are arranged in a different manner (altering the shape of the flower).
Plants are dioecious, either male or female, and only rarely hermaphrodites. [11] They flower between February and May [5] and are primarily pollinated by the native short-tailed bat. [12] Male flowers produce nectar that provides a simple but very sweet fragrance which promotes bat-pollination. [13]
Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as fruit bats or flying foxes, among other colloquial names. They live in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, East Africa, and some oceanic islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [3]
It is commonly known as the black bat flower due to its shape and coloring. [2] The bat flower has unique pollination method in that it is mostly autonomous self pollinating. [3] T. chantrieri prefers environments similar to its native region with tropical, moist conditions. [2] The bat flower has been commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The well-known T. chantrieri goes by the names of black batflower, bat-head lily, devil flower or cat's whiskers. Tacca integrifolia is known as the purple or white batflower . Other cultivated varieties include the arrowroot , T. leontopetaloides , and T. cristata aspera .
Heliconia solomonensis is pollinated by the macroglosine bat (Melonycteris woodfordi) in the Solomon Islands. Heliconia solomonensis has green inflorescences and flowers that open at night, which is typical of bat pollinated plants. The macroglosine bat is the only known nocturnal pollinator of Heliconia solomonensis. [15]
It is a bat-pollinated [6] evergreen perennial, placed in section Callimusa (now including the former section Australimusa), having a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20. [7] The flower cluster is more rounded than in the related species M. beccarii. It is made up of erect spirals of red bracts which enclose tubular yellow flowers.
As a small, frugivorous, specialist nectar-feeding bat with good flight potential and that can breed 1–2 times a year, [15] it is an ideal species as an animal model for bats. Recent evidence has shown this species can carry multiple viruses such as filoviruses , [ 16 ] [ 17 ] coronaviruses , [ 18 ] astrovirus , [ 19 ] picornavirus , [ 20 ...