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stamen

the male organ in angiosperm flowers, consisting of a stalk, or filament, bearing an anther in which POLLEN grains are produced by MEIOSIS.
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Staminal Evolution in the Genus Salvia (Lamiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Evidence for Multiple Origins of the Staminal Lever.
In Blake we find the "Staminal Virtues" or powers associated with the Four Zoas at odds one with another after an original Edenic unity; humanity's journey toward reunification and the New Jerusalem entails acts both partial and violent, as the "right" makes way for the eventual triumph of the "good." In Coleridge's Christabel, we find someone whose virtue ethics--seen in her compassion for Geraldine--leads to heteronomy and the serpent's hiss.
Ceiba speciosa flowers are relatively, pink colored and have staminal tube with sessile anthers, Table (2).
We hypothesize that Otx2 could have a function of maintenance in the identity and survival of adult retinal differentiated cells, and that its high expression in PVR patients correlates with a reentry of differentiated cells into proliferation cycle and staminal status.
Eucharis sanderi is characterized by its strongly plicate leaves, large funnelform-campanulate flowers, large ovaries and capsules, high number of seeds per capsule, reduced staminal cup, and small number of flowers (usually only two per inflorescence, sometimes three or four) (MEEROW, 1989; SILVERSTONE-SOPKIN, 2011).
Also, Redi (2008) mentioned that staminal cells from human fatty tissue acquired cardiomiocit after its transitory exposure to a rat cardiomiocitic, which indicates the possibility of an efficient reprogramming of somatic cells between different species.
lusitanica by the absence of hairs at the base of the staminal filaments and the size and shape of the corolla.
Mutant flowers had only two to four stamens, which were unable to form a normal staminal column.