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Mention the pollinating agent of an inflorescence of small dull coloured floweres with well exposed stamens and large feathery stigma. Give nay one characteristic of pollen grains produced by such flowers.

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Small dull colourd flowers do not attract insects and birds. Therefore , these flowers produce huge amounts of small pollen grains which are dispered in air and stick to large feathery stigma . Such flowers are thus, wind pollinated.
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