Obdiplostemonous

Quick meaning: Obdiplostemonous is an adjective meaning (botany, of flowers) Having two sets of stamens in alternating whorls, with the outer whorl opposite the petals.

Meaning

(botany, of flowers) Having two sets of stamens in alternating whorls, with the outer whorl opposite the petals.

Example Sentences

This arrangement led van Steenis (1932) to hypothesize an obdiplostemonous ancestor for the family.

In the genus Mitella the androecium can exceptionally be more variable, ranging from obdiplostemonous to (ob)haplostemonous arrangements.

Diplostemonous and obdiplostemonous flowers may also occur in the same family (e.g. Rutaceae); Zygophyllaceae are obdiplostemonous, Liliaceae are diplostemonous.

[…] the stamens, which are definite in number, normally obdiplostemonous (namely, the stamens are in two alternating whorls, those of the outer whorl opposite the petals – see Fig. 102) […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diplostemonous, obhaplostemonous, polyadelphous, didynamous, dipetalous, dimerous.

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