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  2. Stamen - Wikipedia

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    Stamen is the Latin word meaning "thread" (originally thread of the warp, in weaving). [8]Filament derives from classical Latin filum, meaning "thread" [8]; Anther derives from French anthère, [9] from classical Latin anthera, meaning "medicine extracted from the flower" [10] [11] in turn from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρά (anthērá), [9] [11] feminine of ἀνθηρός (anthērós) meaning ...

  3. Floral morphology - Wikipedia

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    The stamens are highly modified leaves formed by a foot that is inserted into the receptacle of the flower, called filament, and a distal portion called anther. The filament is the sterile part of the stamen, it can be very long, short or missing, in which case the anthers are called sessile.

  4. Flower - Wikipedia

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    A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, [1] ... Filament, 5. Petal. Androecium. The androecium, consisting of stamens, is the whorl of pollen-producing male parts.

  5. Floral diagram - Wikipedia

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    A floral diagram is a graphic representation of the structure of a flower. It shows the number of floral organs, their arrangement and fusion. Different parts of the flower are represented by their respective symbols. Floral diagrams are useful for flower identification or can help in understanding angiosperm evolution.

  6. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    The corona of this Passiflora flower is a ring of purple filament s between the petal s and the stamen s. Cotyledon s of seedlings of Koelreuteria . One plant shows the first new leaves above its cotyledons, and the rest show various younger stages of emerging cotyledons.

  7. Filament - Wikipedia

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    Protein filament, a long chain of protein subunits, such as those found in hair or muscle; Part of a stamen, the male part of a flower; Hypha, a thread-like cell in fungi and Actinobacteria; Filamentation, an elongation of individual bacterial cells

  8. Yucca filamentosa - Wikipedia

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    Usually trunkless, it is multisuckering with heads of 75 centimetres (30 inches) long, filamentous, blue-green, strappy leaves. Y. filamentosa is readily distinguished from other yucca species by white, thready filaments along the leaf margins. [4]

  9. Column (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Flower of Stylidium turbinatum, showing the column. The column, or technically the gynostemium, is a reproductive structure that can be found in several plant families: Aristolochiaceae, Orchidaceae, and Stylidiaceae. It is derived from the fusion of both male and female parts (stamens and pistil) into a single organ. [1]