Figure 28.14 The Effect of Stigma Retraction in Monkeyflowers

Original Paper: Fetscher, A. E. 2001. Resolution of male-female conflict in an hermaphroditic flower. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268: 525–528.

Elizabeth Fetscher’s experiments showed that the unusual stigma retraction response to pollination in monkeyflowers (illustrated in Figure 28.13) enhances the dispersal of pollen to other monkeyflowers.