staminate
Americanadjective
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having a stamen or stamens.
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having stamens but no pistils.
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A blossom having stamens and no pistil is a Staminate or Male flower.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Staminate calyx of 5 thin oblong mucronate-tipped sepals, longer than the bracts; stamens 5, the anther-cells united only at the middle.
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 Gray, Asa
Staminate: By 3′s in the axil of each bract; perianth, 3 or 5 deeply cut, lanceolate lobules; stamens 15–25, free, inserted in the center of the flower.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Staminate in axillary panicles; calyx bell-shaped; corolla yellow, 5 oval petals, borders entire; stamens 3; filaments short; two thick ones divide high up in 2 parts, thus giving the appearance of 5 stamens in all.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Staminate flowers few and inconspicuous, borne at the base or apex of the pistillate spikes.
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 Gray, Asa
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