Diclinous: alternatives and connections

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus.

A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…

The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and e…

Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); gr…

A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.

Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male fl…

Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense o…

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They a…

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.