Stamens
101Asterales — ▪ plant order Introduction daisy order of flowering plants, containing 11 families and some 26,000 species. The major families are Asteraceae and Campanulaceae (including Lobeliaceae), with far fewer species in the remaining families of… …
102Cucurbitales — ▪ plant order Introduction small order of flowering plants containing seven families, 129 genera, and 2,295 species. It includes Begoniaceae, or the begonia family, with 60 percent of the species in the order, and Cucurbitaceae, or the squash,… …
103Malvaceae — ▪ plant family the hibiscus, or mallow, family, in the order Malvales, containing 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the… …
104passion-flower — ▪ plant any of about 400 species of tendril bearing, herbaceous vines comprising the genus Passiflora (family Passifloraceae), with characteristic flowers. Some are important as ornamentals; others are grown for their edible fruits. The… …
105obdiplostemonous — adjective having two sets of stamens in alternating whorls, with the outer whorl opposite the petals [...] the stamens, which are definite in number, normally obdiplostemonous (namely, the stamens are in two alternating whorls, those of the outer …
106Epilobium angustifolium — Rosebay redirects here. For the evergreen shrub of the same name, see Oleander. Fireweed redirects here. For other uses, see Fireweed (disambiguation). Rosebay Willowherb or Fireweed Scientific classifi …
107Clarkia pulchella — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Class …
108Polanisia — noun widely distributed herbs having palmate leaves and creamy white to or pink to magenta flowers with many stamens of unequal length • Syn: ↑genus Polanisia • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Capparidaceae, ↑family… …
109isostemonous — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|stēmənəs, stem adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary is + stemonous : having stamens equal in number to the perianth divisions * * * isostemony, n. /uy seuh stee meuh neuhs, stem euh /, adj. Bot. having stamens equal… …
110tetradynamous — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|dīnəməs, din adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary tetradynam (from tetra + Greek dynamis power) + ous : having six stamens four of which are longer than the others the Cruciferae are tetradynamous * * * …
