How To Use petaloid In A Sentence
- A section through the latter showed, going from within outwards, the cut edges of two perfect polliniferous lobes in the centre; and on either side the petaloid wing representing the remaining anther-lobe; outside these were the edges of the remaining wings, one on each side. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- It will be remembered that in some of the _Cinchonaceæ_, e.g. _Mussænda_, _Pinckneya_, _Calycophyllum_, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Scitamineae, and passing through the petaloid hypogynous orders Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
- The change in the anther, above alluded to, must not be mistaken for that far more common one in which only a small portion of the anther becomes petaloid, forming a sort of lateral wing or appendage to the polliniferous portion, as happens normally in _Pterandra_, and is common in some double fuchsias. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- The flower is protandrous and presents an unusual sophisticated morphology: the pistil has an umbrella shape with the stigma at the angles, tightly enclosed by the bracts, petaloid sepals and petals.
- The = pileus = varies from a regular wedge-shape to spathulate, or more or less irregularly petaloid, or conchoid forms, the extremes of size and form being shown in Figs. 112, 113. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
- Indian / South Sea / Polynesian / Tahiti / Hawaii arrowroots are from Tacca leontopetaloides (or, possibly, close relations) One Hawaiian name is pi (not the same as the better-known poi, which is a starch made from taro).
- There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc. Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- Now, in this case, the margins of the anther were coherent to form the cup, and the pollen was emitted along a line separating the polliniferous from the petaloid portion of the anther. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- It has the most charming semi-double flowers, formed from four outer petals with several smaller, petaloid stamens inside.
