staminodal

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Or plants, which from the beginning were robust, may have become crowded together by further growth, and for these reasons become weaker than their congeners, though retaining the full development of the staminodal crown, which was fixed during the sensitive period and before the crowding.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891