| In the Zingiberaceae and Costaceae, 24 or 5 staminodes fuse together to form a novel structure, the staminodial labellum. |
| They may represent tepals, staminodes, stipules, ligules, reduced bracts, leaves, branch systems, or novel structures. |
| A typical palm flower is small, with 3 imbricate sepals, 3 valvate petals, six stamens or staminodes, and 3 uniovulate carpels or a trifid pistillode. |
| Fully hardy and into flower around mid April, the nodding, long, 3 in petals are snow white with yellow-tipped white staminodes. |
| The cocoa flower has five free sepals, five free petals, five staminodes, five stamens and an ovary of five united carpels. |
| The staminodes range from diminute and filiform to very well developed with the appearance of sterile anthers, in some cases containing few pollen grains. |
