caudicle
Noun
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Noun
caudicle (plural caudicles)
- (botany) A slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
- 1858, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1909, Harvard Classics Edition, Volume 2, page 251 ↗,
- A pollinium when highly developed consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle, and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter.
- 2000, E. Pacini, G. G. Franchi, Types of Pollen Dispersal Units in Monocots, Karen Wilson, David Morrison (editors), Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, unnumbered page ↗,
- The caudicle holds the pollen grains together (Proctor and Harder 1994; Fig. 1).
- 1858, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1909, Harvard Classics Edition, Volume 2, page 251 ↗,
- caudex
- caudiculate
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