cleistogamous
Americanadjective
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Origin of cleistogamous
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This species produces an abundance of late cleistogamous flowers on erect stems.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
His view that cleistogamous flowers are derived from originally chasmogamous flowers has been confirmed by more recent researches.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
Depressed and stoloniferous; flowers mostly cleistogamous; leaves small, suborbicular to reniform.—Ky. to Fla. and Tex.
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
The beech-drop bears cleistogamous or blind flowers in addition to the few showy ones needed to attract insects.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje
These cleistogamous flowers afford a striking example of habitual self-pollination, and H. von Mohl drew special attention to them as such shortly after the appearance of Darwin's Orchid book.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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