staminodium
Americannoun
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staminodia
plural
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a sterile or abortive stamen.
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a part resembling such a stamen.
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Origin of staminodium
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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 Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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 Asa Gray
Peduncles occasionally more than 6 inches long; the staminodia sometimes excel the anthers in length.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart
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 Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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 Asa Gray
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