I thought I had posted this last night, but don't see the thread.. oh well. that's why nobody replied!
can anybody help me with pollinating a habenaria rhodocheila? I did look under the hood, and I see where the two pollen masses are, and the two viscidium below, but I don't really see where the stigmatic surface is. Is it between where the strands are holding the pollinia to the viscidii? (sp?) I also looked down near the top of the spur but saw no sticky area where there might be a stigmatic surface. There also seems to be a barrier to the area between the two pollinia, so I don't know how the pollen would go there unless a pollinator first knocks this off and take the pollinia, and then another pollinator returns to this flower and then pollinates it.
thanks muchly
can anybody help me with pollinating a habenaria rhodocheila? I did look under the hood, and I see where the two pollen masses are, and the two viscidium below, but I don't really see where the stigmatic surface is. Is it between where the strands are holding the pollinia to the viscidii? (sp?) I also looked down near the top of the spur but saw no sticky area where there might be a stigmatic surface. There also seems to be a barrier to the area between the two pollinia, so I don't know how the pollen would go there unless a pollinator first knocks this off and take the pollinia, and then another pollinator returns to this flower and then pollinates it.
thanks muchly