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Hooks and barbs are helpful in dispersal of

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Viscum
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Boerhaavia
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Plumbago
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Bidens
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Solution

The correct option is D Bidens
The hooks, spines, barbs, and sticky substances of adhesive fruits some- times have functions other than dispersal. It is a Mexican species of beggar-ticks (Bidens aequisquama) has showy flowers. The hitchhiker seed capsule superficially resembles a grappling hook or a spine tipped with several minute hooks or barbs resembling a tiny harpoon sticky glandular projections that aid in dispersal by adhering to the bodies of animals.
So the correct answer is 'Bidens'.

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