Sentence examples for stamen from inspiring English sources

Picking a character involves moving the stylus from the stamen into a petal, and then back to the stamen (in some cases via another petal).

Imagine a drawing of a flower, with eight petals around a stamen, on a touch-sensitive screen.

H. crepitans is native through most of tropical America; H. polyandra, with white rather than red stamen clusters, is native from Mexico to Costa Rica.

The flowers are usually large and showy, tubular, and bilaterally symmetrical and have four fertile stamens and one sterile stamen (staminode).

The families with one stamen and a varied number of petal-like staminodes show a great range of floral form.

First are the pollen-producing stamens in up to several whorls; each stamen consists of an anther on a long slender filament.

One of the characteristic differences between the orchid family and other advanced monocots is that the fertile stamen or stamens are on one side of the flower opposite the lip.

The inflorescence then underwent reduction so that the male flowers were represented by only a single stamen each and the axis between them became greatly shortened.

The stamens may remain free or they may be fused into a single tubular structure (monadelphous) or into a group of nine united stamens with a free stamen above this (diadelphous).

Variations on the basic flower structure pattern exist in the families with five and with one stamen.

Male flowers occur in elongated, slender, erect clusters (catkins or spikes), usually at branchlet tips, and each consists of a single pollen-producing stamen, together with two small, scalelike floral leaves (sepals or bracts) and two smaller scalelike structures called bracteoles.