Definition of Cleistogamous. Meaning of Cleistogamous. Synonyms of Cleistogamous

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Definition of Cleistogamous

Cleistogamous
Cleistogamic Cleis`to*gam"ic, Cleistogamous Cleis*tog"a*mousa. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ? marriage.] (Bot.) 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. --Darwin.

Meaning of Cleistogamous from wikipedia

- most widespread in the gr**** family. However, the largest genus of cleistogamous plants is Viola. The more common opposite of cleistogamy, or "closed...
- bud-like cleistogamous ("closed marriage") flowers, and pollination of cleistogamous flowers is cleistogamy. Unlike chasmogamous flowers, cleistogamous flowers...
- are self-pollinated before the flowers open; these flowers are called cleistogamous; many species in the genus Viola exhibit this, for example. Conversely...
- apomixis. Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated. Cleistogamous flowers are by necessity...
- Self-seeding freely in lawns and gardens, it can be considered a weed by some. Cleistogamous seed heads may also appear on short stems in late summer and early autumn...
- offspring throughout the year via cleistogamous flowers. Plants that produce copious amounts of clonal seeds from cleistogamous flowers often experience increased...
- open, potentially out-crossed and closed, obligately self-pollinated cleistogamous flowers. The evolutionary shift from outcrossing to self-fertilization...
- the season, including chasmogamous flowers in the early spring and cleistogamous flowers summer through fall. Similar-looking species include the round-leaved...
- (20 in), it has pink or purple flowers, and produces additional white cleistogamous flowers underground. It prefers sandy soils. It has simple leaves that...
- -male (chasmogamous), hermaphrodite chasmogamous and hermaphrodite cleistogamous. All three types develop on aerial branches, but only hermaphrodite...