androphorum

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Noun

androphorum (plural androphora)

  1. (botany) A stalk-like extension of the center of a flower from which the stamens emerge.
    Synonym: androphore
    • 1831, A Richard, translated by W. Macgillivray, Elements of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, Including the Characters of the Natural Families of Plants, with Illustrative Figures, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, page 221:
      When all the stamina are united into two androphora; in other words, when their filaments are united into two distinct bodies, they are said to be Diadelphous (St. diadelpha);
    • 1844, W S. W. Ruschenberger, Elements of Botany. Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Philadelphia, Pa, New York, N.Y.: Turner & Fisher, page 76:
      Flower of a malvacea: a, the calyx; b, the corolla; c, the stamens united in a tubular androphorum (from the Greek aner, man, or in Botany, a stamen, and pherein to bear—a columnar expansion of the centre of the flower upon which the stamens seem to grow;) d, the stigmata.
    • 1873 June 5, John Miersen, “On the Lecythidaceæ”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XXX, part the second, London, published 1874, page 159:
      In Couroupita (Plate XXXIII. b), as in the following genera, we find a floral structure analogous in its peculiarities to that of Gustavia, but offering a different appearance, owing to a modification in the form of its singular androphorum.
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