The morphology of the capitula suggests they are not well adapted for pollination by other nocturnal vectors such as bats or moths.
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One often finds the hymn carefully rubricated, and intended to record the traditional local liturgies, appearing before rather than after thecapitulum.
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On the male trees inflorescences are often in fascicles, and with each inflorescence a whorl of bracts surrounds acapitulumof apetalous male flowers.
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The capitula were harvested at weekly intervals during the seed formation stage.
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The bees were in constant motion while on the capitula and did not stop to probe the flowers.
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They typically visited acapitulumfor about 4 to 5 s (range 2 to 16 s).
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Shortly after the secretion was noticed the skin began to turn white near thecapitulum.
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In the chiropterophilous species the capitula are much larger and typically borne on long, pendent peduncles arranged in little-branched inflorescences.
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The tree had up to about 50 capitula at anthesis on the nights when observations were made and it was reaching the end of its flowering period.
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Musaeus' responsoria may have been refrains designed to answer the verses chosen as 'psalmorum capitula'.
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They hovered briefly about 2 cm from acapitulum, then landed and immediately started moving quickly through the projecting anthers using their fore and mid legs.
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The capitula open acropetally along each inflorescence axis so that usually there is no more than a singlecapitulumat anthesis per inflorescence at any time.
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For assisted pollination, male inflorescences were collected and pollen was applied to the stigmas of female flowers by rubbing the male capitula directly against the female flowers.
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Thecapitulumis protected by eight large, sheathing scales and a ring of about twenty tiny scales surround the joint ofcapitulumand peduncle.
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The outside of thecapitulumbears five strengthening calcareous plates corresponding with the plates that protect an acorn barnacle.
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