monadelphous
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prettygoodwordmonadelphous - adj., (of a flower) having the stamens united in a single group.
"Usually forming a tube around the gynoecium," according to some dictionaries. Legumes are often monadelphous. This is a remnant of the eccentric Linnaean classification -- he coined it from roots that translate as "having a single band of brothers," Linnaeus being one to classify flowers by the familial relations of their parts.
---L.
"Usually forming a tube around the gynoecium," according to some dictionaries. Legumes are often monadelphous. This is a remnant of the eccentric Linnaean classification -- he coined it from roots that translate as "having a single band of brothers," Linnaeus being one to classify flowers by the familial relations of their parts.
---L.
