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polypetalous

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals

How To Use polypetalous In A Sentence

  • The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Well-defined polypetalous and gamopetalous genera sometimes occur in the same order, and even Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • In the last-named genus, _C. rotundifolia_ has been found with polypetalous flowers in a wild state in the mountains of Canton Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • = -- The instances of this are more frequent than in the case of the calyx, and admit of classification according as they occur in polypetalous or gamopetalous flowers, on the outer or inner surface of the petals, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • When the plants in which these occurrences happen most frequently are compared together, it may be seen that partial or entire suppression of the floral envelopes, calyx, and corolla, is far more commonly met with in the polypetalous and hypogynous groups than in the gamopetalous or epigynous series. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • In the case of polypetalous, or rather dialypetalous flowers, the petals may be very largely increased by multiplication, as in roses, anemones, pinks, &c. In the last-named genus the number is often so much increased that the calyx splits from the tension exercised on it by the increasing mass within. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • = -- With reference to double flowers, it was remarked by Linné that polypetalous flowers were, as he said, multiplied, while monopetalous flowers were duplicated, or triplicated, as the case may be, [435] a statement that is true in the main, though it requires modification. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • In the polypetalous forms progression from hypogyny to epigyny is generally recognized, and where dorsiventrality with insect-pollination has been established, a dominant group has been developed as in the Leguminosae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • Flowers that, under ordinary circumstances, are gamopetalous, become, in some instances, multiplied by the formation of additional segments, just as in the case of polypetalous corollas; but in these cases the corollas become polypetalous, their petals do not cohere one with another. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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