Curved appendages

• Title

  Curved appendages

• Definition

  Referring to an appendage, most often a vestigial stamen, that arises from a non-expanded part of the ligule and curves slightly inward.

• Notes

  Curved inward appendages are not the same as the ligule or the hood being swept inward, in the latter type of ligule the appendages arise from an apical or subapical ligular expansion.

• Related Terms

  Androecial hood appendages swept inward

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