chasmogamous
[kaz-mog-uh-muh s]
- pertaining to or having pollination occur in a fully opened flower.
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Origin of chasmogamous
First recorded in 1955–60
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Almost all these plants, as Darwin pointed out, have also chasmogamous flowers which render cross-fertilisation possible.
Darwin and Modern ScienceA.C. Seward and Others