1) Cleistogamic 2) Self-pollination
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1) Cleistogamic
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of flowers that self-pollinate and never open fully, or self-pollinate before opening; cf. chasmogamous.
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describing flowers which are self-pollinating and set fertile seed without the flower opening. cf. chasmogamous
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• (a.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
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Term used to describe a flower that self
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self-fertilizing, flowers not opening
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<botany> Of flowers: self-pollinating and setting fertile seed but never opening. ... (13 Nov 1997) ...
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self-fertilizing
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Descriptive of the flowers that remain closed in the bud or hidden in sheaths or bracts and are thus self-pollinated and fertilized.
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Self-pollinating flowers with petals and sepals that never open
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Adjective for a plant in which pollination and fertilisation may occur in an unopened flower bud e.g. sorghums with long papery glumes through which the anthers fail to extrude during anthesis.
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Self-pollinating flowers with petals and sepals that never open
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cleistogamy, cleistogamic, cleistogamous Applied to certain small inconspicuous permanently closed flowers, adapted for self-fertilization, occurring in various plants (e.g. Oxalis Acetosella, different species of Viola, etc.) on the same individuals as the normal larger brightly-colored flowers, which in such cases are either cross-fertilized or b...
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cleistogamic adjective exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy
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fertilized within the unopened flower
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pertaining to or having pollination occurring in unopened flowers.
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