| Gorteria | |
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| Gorteria diffusa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gorteria Linnaeus |
| Type species | |
| Gorteria personata Linnaeus |
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Gorteria is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. It was named in honour of the dutch physicists and botanists Johannes de Gorter and his son David de Gorter.
Allan Ellis at Stellenbosch University and Steve Johnson at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg have shown that the petals of Gorteria diffusa strongly resemble the bodies of female flies and cause male bombyliid flies to try to copulate with flowers.[1]