Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Androecial appendages of neotropical Lecythidaceae. Drawings by Bobbi Angell.

Title: Complete flower. Drawing by B. Angell.

Description: Drawing of a complete flower, i.e., a flower with all of the floral whorls present, i.e., the calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. This flower has both stamens and a pistil and is, thus, bisexual or also called a perfect flower or a hermaphordite. This is also a heterochlamydeous flower, i.e., it has both a calyx and corolla.

Term:

Stamen

Definition:

The male part of the flower comprised of the filament and the anther; in the Lecythidaceae stamens are found attached to the staminal tube in those genera that have one (Allantoma, Cariniana, Grias, and Gustavia) and, as far is known, to the staminal ring of species with zygomorphic flowers. Stamens associated with the ligule are hypothesized to be staminodes bearing antherodes and not anthers.