Question

Give the floral adaptations for chiropterophily.

Answer 1

Hint:Chiropterophily is a pollination process type where the pollinators are the bats. They are a species belonging to the class of Mammalia.

Complete Answer:
Chiropterophily (Chiropteran means bat) is the method of pollination which takes place with the help of bats.
(i) The flowers of these plants are large, stout enough so that bats can hold on to the flowers.
(ii) Flowers produce nectar to attract.
(iii) Flowers have a large number of stamens to produce a required large quantity of pollen grains. For example, Anthocephalus (Kadmab), Kigellia pinnata, Adansonia (Baobab tree), Bauhinia.

Additional information:Most plants that rely on animals to assist in pollination look to insects. In general, insects are abundant, easy to please, and efficient at transferring pollen.As insect pollination is a very a common scenario, and also it is very easy to overlook the pollination that is carried out by vertebrates.
 > Among vertebrates birds are the most prominent pollinator, but mammals participate, too.
>Bat is the very most common pollinator.
>About a fifth of all mammal species on the planet are bats, with species estimates numbering in the 1200-1300 range.
>The only mammals that can truly fly are bats. They are not blind, nor are they flying rodents, and they are not going to suck your blood.
>Most of the bats eat insects, but a very rare group of nectarivorous.
>The main food source for bats is the nectar produced within flowers. These bats pollinate plants in their process of feeding.

Note:Characteristics of bats
>Pollinated flowers vary widely partly because the bats that visit them are so diverse.
> There are many similarities within the bat families. The most important similarities are nectar-feeding species, including an elongated rostrum, teeth that are smaller in number and size, and a long tongue with hair-like projections on the tip.