Schauorgane

English translation: showy structure

20:10 Sep 19, 2019
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany / flower structures, pollination
German term or phrase: Schauorgane
As used to describe the colorful petals, bracts, etc. of many flowers or inflorescences to attract pollinators. I just don't know a general term for such structures in plants/flowers in English that corresponds to the German term Schauorgane. Display structures is the best that I can come up with.
John Speese
United States
Local time: 16:25
English translation:showy structure
Explanation:
Schauapparat m (Bot) showy structure (Blütenattraktivitätsstruktur für Bestäuber)

Langenscheidt FachWöbu Biologie
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Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 22:25
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Thanks, Cilian. I decided to go with this.
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5show-off features
Cillie Swart
2showy structure
Cilian O'Tuama
1attraction apparatus
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attraction apparatus


Explanation:
attraction apparatus

source:

Pollination and Floral Ecology - Page 158 -
https://books.google.com › books
Pat Willmer - 2011 - ‎Nature
Pollen Advertisement: Color and Odor
Through visual or olfatory signals, pollen itself may be part of the attraction apparatus of a flower, especially where there are particularly large anthers or where many anthers form a brush effect (as in many Rosaceae, where the anthers form the entire outer surface of the inflorescence).

additional explanatory source in German:

Schauapparat – Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org › wiki › Schauapparat
Der Schauapparat ist bei Blütenpflanzen die Gesamtheit aller Organe, die eine Blüte oder einen Blütenstand für einen Bestäuber optisch attraktiv macht.

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a.k.a. as olfatory and visual display of flowers:

The olfactory component of floral display in Asimina and ...
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi
KR Goodrich - ‎2009 - ‎
Jun 25, 2009 - Floral scent is a key component of floral display, and probably one of the first floral attractants linking insect pollinators to the radiation of Angiosperms. In this article, we investigate floral scent in two extra‐tropical genera of Annonaceae.

Herbivory-induced changes in the olfactory and visual display ...
https://link.springer.com › article
M Hoffmeister - ‎2017 - ‎
Nov 25, 2016 - First, we compared the olfactory and visual display of flowers and EFNs and also the volume and the sugar concentration of the nectar sources.

Olfaction in context—sources of nuance in plant–pollinator ...
faculty.washington.edu › uploads › 2016/08 › Rusch-et-al-2016-COIS
C Rusch - ‎2016 - ‎
Floral scents act as long-distance signals to attract pollinators, but volatiles ..... ments to test the importance of olfactory display in natural flower–visitor networks ...

Colour as a backup for scent in the presence of olfactory noise ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › pdf › rsos.170996
DA Lawson - ‎2017 - ‎
suggest that visual signals can act as a backup for olfactory ... difficult to produce [4], and additional floral display components add not only the metabolic cost of ...

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show-off features


Explanation:
features used to show off to potential pollinators


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Schauorgan
showy structure


Explanation:
Schauapparat m (Bot) showy structure (Blütenattraktivitätsstruktur für Bestäuber)

Langenscheidt FachWöbu Biologie

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
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