Example sentences for: pistillate

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  • It is apparently defined taxonomically on the basis of plesiomorphies (heterogamous, disciform capitula with perfect/fertile disk florets and pistillate ray florets), and needs to be re-circumscribed.

  • DC - ray florets pistillate and fertile; disk florets perfect and fertile; receptacle hairy; (3) Seriphidium (Besser) Besser - ray florets absent; disk florets perfect and fertile; receptacle glabrous; and (4) Dracunculus Besser - ray florets pistillate and fertile; disk florets functionally staminate; receptacle glabrous.

  • Tridentatae is characterized by discoid-homogamous capitula, with the exception of S. bigelowii , which has occasional heterogamous-disciform capitula of one pistillate ray floret and two perfect disk florets - a character that was previously considered a plesiomorphy or secondary reversal in S. bigelowii [ 2 ] . Based on ITS and chloroplast phylogenies of sect.

  • primarily based on the presence or absence of ray florets and the fertility/sterility of disk florets: (1) Abrotanum Besser ( Artemisia of later authors) - ray florets pistillate and fertile; disk florets perfect and fertile; receptacle glabrous; (2) Absinthium (Mill.)

  • Sphaeromeria also has heterogamous-disciform capitula with pistillate ray and perfect disk florets, as does heterogamous-disciform S. bigelowii , suggesting that it is indeed a plesiomorphy.


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