Definition of Staminodia

1. staminodium [n] - See also: staminodium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Staminodia

stalworth
stalworths
stamen
stamened
stameniferous
stamens
stamina
staminal
staminas
staminate
stamineal
stamineous
staminiferous
staminode
staminodes
staminodia (current term)
staminodies
staminodium
staminody
staminophore
stammel
stammels
stammer
stammered
stammerer
stammerers
stammering
stammering(a)
stammering of the bladder
stammeringly

Literary usage of Staminodia

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 (1914)
"BR 771. LBC 449. cc. Plant tall, often up to 10ft. (No. 21 perhaps excepted). D. staminodia of medium length (3 in. or less). E. The staminodia not united. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Petals tinged red ; staminodia red-yellow ; lip red-yellow and ... Tube of corolla and staminodia at long as the blade : fls. large and pendulous. ..."

3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Inner series of stamens and staminodia hairy, staminodia obtusely sagittate, on a short stalk. Fruit black, succulent, oblong- ovoid, -j in. long. ..."

4. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Stamens 6, or the alternato stamens replaced by dilated sterile filaments or staminodia. Filaments slender or more frequently winged and produced beyond the ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"and coccinea; of Old World forms with three staminodia, orien- talis and flavescens ; and of New World forms with two outer staminodia, compacta, lutea, ..."

6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"T.-8 mm. long; petals oblanceolate, 15-18 mm. long; staminodia similar, slightly smaller; capsule 12-15 mm. long, acute at the base. ..."

7. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"The showy parts of the flower, inside the petals, are the petal-like staminodia, the upper two or three of which are very prominent. ..."

8. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"staminodia 3-5 at the base of each petal. Flower g"-iS" broad ; petals much exceeding the calyx-lobes. staminodia not longer than the stamens, stout. ..."

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