Pin flower

  • Title

    Pin flower

  • Definition

    One of two types of flowers found in some species in which the style is long and the stamens are short. Compare with thrum flower; see heterostyly.

  • Related Terms

    Thrum flower

    Distyly (distylous)

    Tristyly (tristylous)

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