Gorteria is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of flowering plants in the daisy family

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

. It was named in honour of the dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 physicist

Physicist

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s and botanists

Botany

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 Johannes de Gorter and his son David de Gorter

David de Gorter

David de Gorter was a Dutch physician and botanist.He was professor at the then University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia...

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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.