Experimental Studies Cast Doubt on Deceit Syndrome of Bat Flower

Bat Flower ( Taccachantrieri) is a south-west China’s species of a tropical plant genus called Tacca,which features near black flowers,conspicuous involucral bracts andwhisker-like fili form bracteoles.These features have been as-sumed to function as a “deceit syn-drome” in which reproductive struc-tures construct a maze and emit scentto resemble decaying organic mate-rials to attract flies that facilitatecross-pollination. However, throughexperimental studies of the pollina-tion biology a…