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  • Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary.

    The Pecan and its Culture 1920

  • Staminate flowers in slender drooping catkins, borne in groups of three, occasionally on the new shoots, but usually from buds just back of the terminal buds on last year's shoots, calyx naked, adherent to the bract, unequally two-third lobed or cleft; stamens with short filaments, three to ten in number.

    The Pecan and its Culture 1920

  • Staminate catkins are in crowded clusters, capitate or elongate (figs. 36, 37), but with much variation in the number of catkins in each cluster.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Staminate flowers not sufficiently developed in the bud to be apparent.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Staminate receptacle tubular, calyx inserted on the border of the receptacle, 5 sepals.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Staminate and pistillate flowers greenish, on different parts of the same stalk.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Staminate solitary, peduncles very long, involucre cordate; calyx 5-lobed; corolla 5 petals; filaments simple, one separate, 2 approximated; anthers joined at their bases.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Staminate: Calyx, 5 unequal sepals; corolla bell-shaped, 5 petals, woolly within, a small notch at the end, bent downward; stamens 10, in 2 whorls of 5.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Staminate: receptacle cup-formed, 5 sepals and 5 free, yellow petals; 5 stamens in pairs, one free.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Staminate: calyx 5-toothed with dotted borders; corolla, 5 fringed petals; stamens 3; anthers

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

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