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Definition of Calyx tube
1. Noun. The cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calyx Tube
Literary usage of Calyx tube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... terminal spikes: calyx-tube glabrous, limb lavender, obsoletely 5-angled; ...
calyx-tube reddish more or less pilose on the ribs 20. vulgäre ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"•t— -t— Summit of capsule not extended beyond the adnate calyx-tube: flowers not
... Calyx-tube more or less produced beyond the summit of the ovary, ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary ; this and the membranaceous 6. ...
Calyx-tube above the ovary filiform ; the lobes reflexed. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Villous : capsule larger and more broadly winged, very abruptly contracted at
top: calyx-tube shorter than the ovary: fls. white, becoming rose. ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Carpels not enclosed in the fleshy calyx-tube (hypanthium). 1. ... Style articulated
with the ovary : calyx-tube from campanulate to nearly flat ..."
6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Calyx-lobes shorter than the calyx-tube, bristly ciliate. 21. Af. arizonica.
Calyx-lobes longer than the calyx-tube. Corolla about 15 mm. long; ..."
7. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"Calyx-tube continued beyond the ovary into a »hort funnel-form в. ... Calyx-tube
much prolonged and slender beyond the ovary. cup. ..."
8. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Tube of the calyx produced beyond the ovary, the limb with the free portion of
the calyx-tube deciduous after flowering; parts of the flower always in 4s; ..."
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