didynamous
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Etymology
Origin of didynamous
1785–95; < New Latin Didynam ( ia ) name of the class (equivalent to di- di- 1 + Greek dýnam ( is ) power ( see dynamic) + -ia -ia ) + -ous
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Stamens 4, slightly didynamous, incurved-ascending, scarcely exceeding the corolla.—A low, much branched annual, clammy-pubescent, with nearly entire lance-oblong 3-nerved leaves, and small pale blue flowers on axillary 1–3-flowered peduncles.
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
Thus, in some flowers the stamens are didynamous, having only four out of five stamens developed, and the two corresponding to the upper part of the flower longer than the two lateral ones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Among normally didynamous plants such numerical restitution, so to speak, is not unusual; thus, in Veronica four and five stamens occur.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on the tube of the corolla; anthers 2-celled, persistent.
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
Stamens 4, strongly didynamous, included, hairy; anthers approaching by pairs, 2-celled, the cells parallel, often pointed at base.
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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