clinandrium

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English

Figure 19 from the 1877 edition of Charles Darwin's Fertilization of orchids shows the clinandrium (clinandrum).

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Noun

clinandrium (plural clinandria)

  1. (botany) An area at the tip of the column of orchid flowers, beneath the anthers.