How To Use Cleistogamous In A Sentence
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Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Pollination
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In addition, 62% of the flowers on these plants were cleistogamous indicating a high level of self-pollination.
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Also pale, pouch-like, cleistogamous flowers underground.
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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
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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
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Flowering plants had a mean of 9.5 inflorescences on 70 mostly cleistogamous spikelets.
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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.
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We almost walked by the minute yellow flowers of Utricularia subulata, surprisingly still in bloom, and saw many more plants with cleistogamous flowers.
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Nandi suggests that the flowers of L. intermedia Leggett are cleistogamous because of their reduced size.
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In other cases precautions are taken to prevent cross-fertilisation, as in the numerous cleistogamous or closed flowers.
Darwinism (1889)
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No plant dares depend upon its cleistogamous or blind flowers alone for offspring; and in the sixty or more genera containing these curious growths, that usually look like buds arrested in development, every plant that bears them bears also showy flowers dependent upon cross-pollination by insect aid.
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Several insects, birds and mammals have been suggested or proven as likely pollinators, but some species appear to be self-pollinated or even cleistogamous.
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Its oddity of structure, its lovely color and enticing fringe, lead one to suspect it of extraordinary desire to woo some insect that will carry its pollen from blossom to blossom and so enable the plant to produce cross-fertilized seed to counteract the evil tendencies resulting from the more prolific self-fertilized cleistogamous flowers buried in the ground below.
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The beech-drop bears cleistogamous or blind flowers in addition to the few showy ones needed to attract insects.
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The majority of grasses in which cleistogamy occurs have both chasmogamous flowers and either one or two types of cleistogamous flowers.
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Cleistogamous flowers by necessity are self-compatible or self-fertile plants. [
Pollination
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There seems to be no mechanism to limit self-pollination, and cleistogamous flowers have been reported in cultivated specimens of coralberry.
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Flowering plants had a mean of 9.5 inflorescences on 70 mostly cleistogamous spikelets.
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Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Pollination
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This species produces no cleistogamous or blind flowers.
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