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... lindheimerianus, but differ in having quadrifid rather than bifid styles on the staminate petals. Although differing in its distinctive stellate-lepidote pedicellate trichomes, the South American ... obsolete; inflorescences pseudoterminal, reduced, usually with a single pistillate flower below the staminate; petals reduced in pistillate flowers; stamens 5 or 6; pistillate flowers sessile, sepals ...
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Chapter 3: Caryota key
... 5. 3a. Stems 2-10 m tall, 5-20 cm dbh; rachillae 10-60; staminate petals ca 3-5 mm wide; stamens 12-24; seeds 1 (very rarely 2) per ... staminate petals ca. 2.0-3.0 mm wide; stamens 6-11; fruit ca. 1-1.5 cm diameter; 1 seed per fruit; Philippines. .................................................................................C. cumingii 5b. Stem 20-80 cm dbh; staminate petals ...
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Inflorescence Terminology (Part 2)
... ) until you carefully examine the blossom. The showy, red, modified leaves of poincettia are not petals. In fact, they are not even part of the true flowers. They surround clusters of ... "male" caprifig and the female tree (edible fig). Caprifig trees are monoecious with separate male (staminate) flowers and short-style female (pistillate) flowers within the syconia. It is functionally male because ...
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Stinking Flowers
... colorful, sweet-smelling structure that attracts insects. A variety of insects find the showy petals and fragrance irresistible, and the reward for their pollination service is a carbohydrate-rich ... -shaped spathe. Female flowers consist essentially of ovule-bearing pistils deep within the spathe. Staminate (male) flowers (consisting essentially of stamens) are packed around the spadix, just above ...
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... contains the reproductive organs, which are usually surrounded by colorful petals and sepals. A flower containing only stamens, is male, or staminate; a flower containing only pistils, is female, or pistillate. When ...
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... STAMINATE: 1. Equipped with or producing stamens. 2. Male, producing stamens but no pistils. STAMINODE: A sterile stamen. STAMINODY: The metamorphosis of various floral organs, such as petals, ... no stem; acaulescent. STENOPETALOUS: Having narrow petals. STENOPHYLLOUS: Having narrow leaves. STERILE: 1. Unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; barren. 2. A staminate or male flower; a fern frond without ...
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Cucurbits
... on the stem. Spring-like tendrils. Male (staminate) and female (pistillate) flowers ( unisexual flowers) on a single plant (monoecious). Flowers with five fused petals and five stamens (male) or an inferior ovary ... early fall before frost. In many forms, the first-formed flowers on a plant are staminate (male), and this is why they never form a fruit. Several weeks later the pistillate ...
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Ailanthus altissima fact sheet
... , glandular teeth near the base. Flower: Flowers open in mid-April to July. Staminate flowers have a disagreeable odor. Petals are yellow-green. Fruit: An oblong, twisted samara, 1 to 1 1 ...
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Floridata: Aleurites fordii
... a catalpa Catalpa bignonioides. They have 5-7 round tipped ivory petals delicately streaked with rust-orange in the throat, creating a ... flowers. On most trees, all but one in each cluster are staminate male flowers. Upon pollination by honeybees, the female flowers develop into ... turns creamy yellow. The closely related candlenut tree (A. molucanna) has petals less than 0.5 in (1.3 cm) long and ...
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Floridata: Bursera simaruba
... , producing small inconspicuous flowers composed of 3-5 greenish petals arranged in elongate racemes (spikelike clusters with each flower on its own stem). Staminate (male), pistillate (female), and perfect (both) flowers usually ...
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