staminate
Americanadjective
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having a stamen or stamens.
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having stamens but no pistils.
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In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to pollen grains by meiosis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to microspores by meiosis.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Flowers greenish, axillary, the fertile solitary or in pairs, peduncled, appearing with the leaves, the lower usually staminate only, fascicled or racemose along the base of the branches of the season.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Flowers monœcious; the fertile spikelets 1-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few-flowered staminate spikelets.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Terminal spike staminate; perigynium more or less turgid or plump, often glaucous, scarcely beaked, finely striate; spikes erect.—Sp.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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