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Figure 5: Pollinator web showing interaction between different pollinators, flowering plants and flower colours. Flowering plants have been classified into 22 orders (bottom line) numbered as: 1- Ranales; 2-Parietales; 3-Malvales; 4-Geraniales; 5-Celastrales; 6- Polemoniales; 7-Rosales; 8-Rubiales; 9-Lamiales; 10-Personales; 11- Asterales; 12-Caryophyllales; 13-Malpighiales; 14-Poales; 15- Miscellaneous orders having less number of species. Pollinators (centre line) coded as: Co- Coleoptera; Di- Diptera; Le- Lepidoptera; Hy- Hymenoptera; Th-Thysanoptera; Ch- Chiroptera; A- Aves; W-S- Wind pollination/Self-pollination. Colour of the flowers attracted by pollinators (top line) coded as: B-Blue; R-Red; Y-Yellow; G-Green; W-White; M-Mixture of colours. |