petaloid
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The stamens were eight or ten in number, their connectives prolonged into foliaceous or petaloid appendages, so that the filament represented the stalk of the leaf.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Calyx of 12 sepals arranged in 3 whorls, the inner ones broad and petaloid.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
When the parts of the calyx are in appearance like petals they are said to be petaloid, as in Liliaceae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
A partial inflorescence, cyathium, bearing the petaloid glands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
B. Glands of the involucre without petaloid appendages.
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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