JIT compilation requirement for System.Reflection.PropertyInfo.GetValue?

Calling System.Reflection.PropertyInfo.GetValue on an AOT compiled platform when the API compatibility level is set to .NET 2.0 gives me the following error:

Unhandled Exception: System.ExecutionEngineException: Attempting to JIT compile method 'System.Reflection.MonoProperty:StaticGetterAdapterFrame (System.Reflection.MonoProperty/StaticGetter`1,object)' while running with --aot-only.

at System.Reflection.MonoProperty.GetValue (System.Object obj, System.Object[] index) [0x00000] in :0

The error does not occur when the API compatibility level is set to .NET 2.0 Subset. Is this expected behaviour or a Unity bug?

Here is my code

 void Start()
 {
     System.Type type = System.Type.GetType("UnityEngine.iPhone, UnityEngine, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null");
     if (type != null)
     {
         System.Reflection.PropertyInfo property = type.GetProperty("generation");
         if (property != null)
         {
             string text = property.GetValue(null, null).ToString().ToLower();
             Debug.Log("text = " + text);
         }
         else
             Debug.Log("property = null");
     }
 }

This was added to a new empty project in Unity 4.5.5 and deployed to a 1st generation iPad Mini running iOS 7.1.2.