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Smearing of pollen is facilitated by the fanning out of anthers borne at the ends of the filaments.
The actinomorphic, tubular flowers of both species are pale blue to mauve, with epipetalous anthers.
Within-flower transfer of pollen from anthers to stigma was achieved by depressing the keel petal of newly opened flowers using fine forceps.
Flowers open wide in full sun, and with the central yellow anthers, the effect is striking.
They eat exposed pollen on the anthers, while other pollen grains adhere to their legs.
Fresh pollen was collected from anthers on plants by gently tapping the stems of plants while holding a collecting tray below the tassels.
When taking nectar, hummingbirds contacted anthers, receiving pollen on their bill.
For estimation of pollen production, two anthers from each flower bud were examined.
There are usually about 20 stamens, with anthers that range from pink to burgundy in color.
As the bee's proboscis is inserted into the flower it pushes past the retrorse anthers to the nectar at the base of the tube.
Each flower has a lemma and a palea at its base, and contains two lodicules and one pistil surrounded by three anthers.
Stamens are didynamous, but the yellow anthers occur close together, with their divergent thecae spreading to the outside.
As pollinators removed pollen from the thecae, their walls collapsed and the anthers curled down gradually.
The length and width of anthers were measured with a micrometer under a stereomicroscope.
Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons.
Pollen, in monads or tetrads, is presented in the anthers, adhering to the anther by means of pollenkitt or elastoviscin until collected.
In self-pollination, the flower is monoclinous and the stigma receives pollen from the anthers of the same flower.
These are the male part of the flower consisting of pollen-bearing anthers at the end of stalk-like filaments.
I removed the anthers from a single flower on each marked branch before dehiscence and marked the base of the hypanthium with a spot of paint.
Closed flowers were stripped of sepals, petals and anthers just prior to stigma maturity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The ovary makes a purplish dot in the center, surrounded by curling, yellow anthers, with threadlike filaments united at base.
It does not follow because these organs bear anthers that they are morphologically true stamens.
Stackhousia juncea, according to Clarke, has mixed with its perfect flowers a number of apetalous blossoms destitute of anthers.
Bees whether solitary or social enter flowers for the sake of the honey in their nectaries and the pollen on their anthers.
The seed organs are curious, the stigma being foot-stalked, peltate, and placed between and above the anthers.
On the other hand I could detect no difference in the product from the two coloured anthers of clarkia.
Apparently the high humidity hinders the dehiscence of anthers and shedding of the pollen grains.
First the anthers must be carefully removed from the bud of the flower so as to eliminate all possibility of self-pollination.
The first task in crossing grapes is to remove the anthers before the flower opens, a process known as emasculation.
Filaments thread-like, much longer than the linear-oblong blunt anthers, which are fixed by a point above the base and extrorse.
The anthers are golden brown, and the stigmas are spherical instead of filiform.
The corolla is campanulate, with the tips of the petals not recurved, and the anthers are much shorter than in Billardiera.
Rhododendron tribe, characterized by capsular fruit, seed with a loose coat, deciduous petals and anthers without appendages.
The staminal nature of this pseudo-corolla is inferred from the occasional presence of anthers on it.
If the anthers are pulled, the filaments are separated from them and remain as subulate white pointed processes.
The anthers are large and green at first, becoming small and yellow, their threadlike filaments curling.
There are three stamens and the anthers are pale or purplish.
Stamens 5, inserted on the sepals, with double or irregular anthers.
The anthers at the base of the spadix are curious, and should be examined.
Where in relation to the nectary are the stigma and the anthers?
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