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Coined 1982 by Georges Pasteur, after Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne, who described the behaviour in orchids in a 1916 paper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pouyannian mimicry
Today it means: A type of mimicry exhibited by some plants, whereby certain flower parts resemble a (female) potential mate for a male of a pollinator species, thus inducing pseudocopulation. Full definition →