Which of the following is incorrect for wind-pollinated plants?

Which of the following is incorrect for wind-pollinated plants?
  1. Well exposed stamens and stigma
  2. Many ovules in each ovary
  3. Flowers are small and not brightly coloured
  4. Pollen grains are light and non-sticky

Solution

Characteristics of wind-pollinated flowers:
i) The pollen grains are light and non – sticky so that they can easily be carried by air currents.
ii) The flowers have well–exposed stamens so that the pollens are easily dispersed into wind currents.
iii) Flowers have a large feathery stigma to easily trap the airborne pollen grains.
iv) Nectar is absent.
v) Presence of a single ovule in each ovary
vi) Flowers packed into an inflorescence.

Asked in: NEET 2020 (Phase 2)

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