staminodium
Americannoun
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a sterile or abortive stamen.
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a part resembling such a stamen.
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It also has three stamens and three staminodia; but the latter are deeply cleft and exceed the anthers.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Ovaries at the base of the spadix, each surrounded by 4–5 staminodia connate into a cup, 1-celled, bearing 1–few amphitropous or nearly orthotropous ovules at the base; stigma almost sessile.
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
Its perianth is less than an inch long, and its staminodia are yellow, with inrolled edges.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Corolla bell-shaped, with 5 staminodia in the sinuses.
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 clear-white stamens stand opposite the outer segments, alternating with the white staminodia.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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