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cleistogamic

ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy

How To Use cleistogamic In A Sentence

  • Thus, in our common dog-violet the perfect flowers rarely produce seed, while the rudimentary cleistogamic flowers do so in abundance. Darwinism (1889)
  • In almost every order we find some plants which have become thus reduced or degraded for wind or self-fertilisation, as Poterium and Sanguisorba among the Rosaceae; while this has certainly been the case in the cleistogamic flowers. Darwinism (1889)
  • The cleistogamic flowers of Viola are used in the discussion on More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • Leersia oryzoides was for a long time thought to produce only cleistogamic and therefore autogamous flowers. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
  • One chapter will be devoted to cleistogamic species, and I will just notice your new grass case. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • Cruger, Dr., on cleistogamic fertilisation of Epidendrum. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • The sweet violet also produces abundance of seed from its cleistogamic flowers, and few from its perfect flowers; but in Liguria it produces only perfect flowers which seed abundantly. Darwinism (1889)
  • Cruger's case here referred to is doubtless the cleistogamic fertilisation of Epidendrum, etc. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • The pollen of the closed imperfect cleistogamic flowers differ in the transparency of the integument, and More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • I have some grand plants (and I formerly sent seeds to Kew) of the cleistogamic grass, but they show no signs of producing flowers of any kind as yet. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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