chasmogamous

American  

[kaz-mog-uh-muhs] / kæzˈmɒg ə məs /

adjective

Botany.

1. pertaining to or having pollination occur in a fully opened flower.

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Other Word Forms

• chasmogamy noun

Etymology

Origin of chasmogamous

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The corolla and frequently other parts of the flower are reduced; the development of the seed may, therefore, be accomplished with a smaller expenditure of building material than in chasmogamous flowers; there is also no loss of pollen, and thus a smaller amount suffices for fertilisation.

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Almost all these plants, as Darwin pointed out, have also chasmogamous flowers which render cross-fertilisation possible.

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His view that cleistogamous flowers are derived from originally chasmogamous flowers has been confirmed by more recent researches.

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Conditions of nutrition in the broader sense are the factors which determine whether chasmogamous or cleistogamous flowers are produced, assuming, of course, that the plants in question have the power of developing both forms of flower.

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Darwin sees in cleistogamous flowers an adaptation to a good supply of seeds with a small expenditure of material, while chasmogamous flowers of the same species are usually cross-fertilised and "their offspring will thus be invigorated, as we may infer from a wide-spread analogy."

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