Synoecious: alternatives and connections

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

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.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

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

Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

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

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can nev…

Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

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

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…

A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.