infructescence in a sentence
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- Another distinguishing feature in the infructescence is the pedicels, which elongate, spread apart, stiffen and ultimately radiate equally in all directions.
- Now known as an infructescence, it is roughly ellipsoidal, 6 to 10 cm high ( 2.2 4 in ) and wide.
- "' Infructescence "'( fruiting head ) is defined as the ensemble of fruits derived from the ovaries of an inflorescence.
- Milne-Redhead and Schweickerdt had segregated " Cybistetes " from " Ammocharis " largely on the basis of infructescence structure.
- A fossil infructescence and fruit found in 44 million-year-old strata in Oregon was assigned to " Emmenopterys dilcheri ", an extinct species.
- B . H . Danser described the species in his 1928 monograph, " The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies ", based only on part of a stem and an infructescence.
- He described " I . globosus " from the Port Jackson district on the basis of round ( rather than oval ) infructescences ( cones ), and " I . virgatulus " from Western Australia.
- Fruits are green, egg-shaped, usually less than 1 mm across, enclosed inside the persistent flower parts which are in turn enclosed in woolly hairs, so that the infructescence as a whole appears white and woolly.
- At a site near Jandakot, short-billed black cockatoos were observed selecting immature infructescences which bore signs of infestation by the weevil " Alphitopis nivea ", the larvae of which tunnel in banksia spikes and eat the seed.
- Morphological support for this was given by the fact that the old styles of var . " dolichostyla " are quite different from those of other varieties, being stouter, and tending not to curl around the infructescence as the others do.