Apetalous

Vascular plants found in Mt. Assiniboine park include American alpine smelowskia Smelowskia calycina, Raynold's sedge Carex raynoldsii, Cusick's Indian paintbrush Castilleja cusickii, stalked-pod locoweed Oxytropis podocarpa, sub-alpine grassland Saussurea nuda and apetalous campion Silene uralensis attenuata. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The following references apply some to apetalous and others to dimorphic flowers, but it must be remembered that the latter plants are not necessarily wanting in petals or stamens, &c., though the functional activity of the parts may be impaired: ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The flowers in this case were apetalous and imperfect. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Thus, certain species of _Helianthemum_ are apetalous in Lapland. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

= -- Deficiency of the entire corolla occurs in conjunction with similar reductions in other organs, or as an isolated phenomenon in the many apetalous varieties of plants recorded in books. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The starting-point of the class, however, and the position within it of apetalous families with frequently unisexual flowers, have provoked much discussion. ❋ Various (N/A)

All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided. ❋ Various (N/A)

I desire now to call attention to chemical groups under the apetalous plants having simplicity of floral elements. ❋ Various (N/A)

The highest apetalous plants contain camphors and oils; the highest of the monocotyledons contain a mucilage and oils; and the highest dicotyledons contain oils and special acids. ❋ Various (N/A)

No plants containing saponin have been found among apetalous groups. ❋ Various (N/A)

The tree belongs to the same apetalous family as our castor-oil and the mandioca; while the tree which furnishes the caoutchouc of the East Indies and Africa is a species of Ficus, and yields an inferior article to the rubber of ❋ James Orton (1853)

Every ape - talous flower is incomplete; but every incom - plete flower is not apetalous. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Returning, now, to apetalous plants of multiplicity and simplification of floral elements, we find that the urticaceæ [30] contain free formic acid; the hemp [31] contains alkaloids; the hop, [32] ethereal oil and resin; the rhubarb, [33] crysophonic acid; and the begonias, [34] chicarin and lapacho dyes. ❋ Various (N/A)

_Stackhousia juncea_, according to Clarke, has mixed with its perfect flowers a number of apetalous blossoms destitute of anthers. [ ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)