cleistogamous
adjective
pertaining to or having pollination occurring in unopened flowers.
cleistogamic
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a variation of
cleistogamous.
Example Sentences
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The sepals of the cleistogamic flowers are elongated and closely pressed together; the petals are much reduced in size, colourless, and folded over the interior organs.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
A large number, but not all the species, of certain genera, as of Oxalis and Viola, bear cleistogamic as well as ordinary flowers.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
The result would be the production of cleistogamic flowers such as we now see them; and these are admirably fitted to yield a copious supply of seed at a wonderfully small cost to the plant.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
Juncus bufonius is remarkable by bearing in parts of Russia only cleistogamic flowers, which contain three instead of the six anthers found in the perfect flowers.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
I may here add that Fritz Muller, as I hear from his brother, has found in the highlands of Southern Brazil a white-flowered species of violet which bears subterranean cleistogamic flowers.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
