Defn: Of or pertaining to the Proteaceæ, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia.
It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
Defn: The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves andapetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves.
Amarantus caudatus and Polygonum orientale), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes.
A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Apetalous flowers have been noted most frequently in the following plants: Aconitum, sp.
The following references apply some to apetalous and others to dimorphic flowers, but it must be remembered that the latter plants are not necessarily wanting in petals or stamens, &c.
The flowers in this case were apetalous and imperfect.
Deficiency of the entire corolla occurs in conjunction with similar reductions in other organs, or as an isolated phenomenon in the many apetalous varieties of plants recorded in books.
Stackhousia juncea, according to Clarke, has mixed with its perfect flowers a number of apetalous blossoms destitute of anthers.
I desire now to call attention to chemical groups under the apetalous plants having simplicity of floral elements.
The highest apetalous plants contain camphors and oils; the highest of the monocotyledons contain a mucilage and oils; and the highest dicotyledons contain oils and special acids.
The scale-or root-leaf returns in the several squamiform micropetals of what have been called the Apetalous plants; it corresponds to the involucrum--squamoid corolla.
The Salicineæ are related to five other natural orders, in all of which the apetalous flowers are arranged in catkins.
Apetalous flowers may be considered as another form of monstrosity, and in Salpiglossis sinuata such a variety without a corolla made its appearance in the year 1892 in the nursery of Vilmorin.
Its large spathe is pure white, surrounding a fleshy spike, which is covered with minute apetalous flowers.
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