How To Use cleistogamous In A Sentence
- Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated. Pollination
- In addition, 62% of the flowers on these plants were cleistogamous indicating a high level of self-pollination.
- Also pale, pouch-like, cleistogamous flowers underground. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
- To determine whether resource partitioning or kin selection is more likely to describe the dynamics of local competition, a greenhouse experiment was conducted with Triplasis purpurea, a cleistogamous annual with restricted dispersal. Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb
- There were highly significant effects of competition on shoot mass and number of seeds matured in cleistogamous CL spikelets. Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb
- Flowering plants had a mean of 9.5 inflorescences on 70 mostly cleistogamous spikelets.
- Clumps of these delicate little pinkish blossoms and abundant leaves, cuddled close to the cold earth of northern forests, usually conceal near the dry leaves or moss from which they spring blind flowers that never open -- cleistogamous the botanists call them -- flowers that lack petals, as if they were immature buds; that lack odor, nectar, and entrance; yet they are perfectly mature, self-fertilized, and abundantly fruitful. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
- We almost walked by the minute yellow flowers of Utricularia subulata, surprisingly still in bloom, and saw many more plants with cleistogamous flowers.
- Nandi suggests that the flowers of L. intermedia Leggett are cleistogamous because of their reduced size.
- In other cases precautions are taken to prevent cross-fertilisation, as in the numerous cleistogamous or closed flowers. Darwinism (1889)
