cleistogamic
- a variation of cleistogamous.
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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 Darwin, Charles
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 Darwin, Charles
They have been called by Dr. Kuhn cleistogamic, and they will be described in the last chapter of this volume.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
It is a natural inquiry how so many plants belonging to various very distinct families first came to have the development of their flowers arrested, so as ultimately to become cleistogamic.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
Amphicarpum is remarkable in having cleistogamic flowers borne on long radical subterranean peduncles which are fertile, whilst the conspicuous upper paniculate ones, though apparently perfect, never produce fruit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
