staminate
Americanadjective
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having a stamen or stamens.
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having stamens but no pistils.
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In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to pollen grains by meiosis.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to microspores by meiosis.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Perigynium mostly thick and hard in texture, often scabrous or hirsute, straight-beaked; pistillate spikes compactly flowered, mostly large, erect or nearly so; staminate spikes 1 or more; stigmas 3.
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
Calyx corolla-like, the staminate salver-form; armed with stinging hairs. b.
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
Spikelets ovoid or oblong, of several loosely imbricated scales; the lower empty, one or two above bearing a staminate or imperfect flower; the terminal flower perfect and fertile.
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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