Plumose

The pilings are covered with plumose anemones, invertebrate filter feeders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both features help pollen grains adhere to their bodies, but they also have specialized pollen-carrying structures; in most bees, this takes the form of a structure known as the scopa, which is on the hind legs of most bees, and/or the lower abdomen (e.g., of megachilid bees), made up of thick, plumose setae. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)

The granite's granophyric groundmass consists of intergrown quartz and potassium feldspar (~Or45), the latter consisting of plumose splays that nucleated directly from pre-existing phenocrysts. ❋ Unknown (1998)

One of our agents copied the letter before it was sent and it reads, "le sept plumose, Van six de la Republique Frangaise." ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1997)

The styles are slender and distinct with plumose stigmas exserted at the top of the spikelet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

_ Head and thorax with bright silvery tomentum, facialia without bristles, epistoma slightly prominent; eyes bare; mouth black, testaceous towards the base, full as long as the thorax; antennæ tawny, not reaching the epistoma, arista plumose; legs black, coxæ and femora testaceous; wings grey, veins black. ❋ Various (N/A)

Head and antennæ black, arista plumose; thorax with two slender, darker, almost obsolete stripes; hind borders of the abdominal segments black; legs piceous, femora black, coxæ tawny; wings grey, with ❋ Various (N/A)

Head testaceous; antennæ testaceous, third joint short, conical; arista plumose; abdomen deep black; legs testaceous; femora black; wings limpid white, with three broad blackish stripes, the second emitting a branch from its outer side to the costa, ❋ Various (N/A)

Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

The = pistil = consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Styles are distinct with plumose stigmas exserted laterally near the apex of the spikelet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Head transverse, slightly rugulose; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista thinly plumose; thorax very finely punctured; scutellum almost semicircular; abdomen blue, smooth; tarsi yellow; wings black, dark grey towards the hind border, with whitish points towards the costa; discal transverse vein parted by about its length from the border and by more than its length from the præbrachial transverse. ❋ Various (N/A)

The terminal position of the inflorescence, its protrusion far above the level of the foliage leaves, the swinging and dangling anthers, the abundance of non-sticking pollen and the plumose stigmas are all intended to facilitate pollination by wind. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the præbrachial transverse. ❋ Various (N/A)

Ovary is glabrous with two styles ending in plumose stigmas. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Head whitish; third joint of the antennæ short, conical, whitish, blackish at the tip, arista plumose; thorax with a brown stripe; scutellum whitish; abdomen black; legs whitish, with black bands; wings white, with many blackish spots, some of them confluent; discal transverse vein straight, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by a little less than its length from the præbrachial transverse; halteres whitish. ❋ Various (N/A)

Styles are short, with plumose stigmas and laterally exserted. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Antennæ pale tawny, arista plumose; thorax with two slender, darker, almost obsolete stripes; scutellum black; pectus piceous; abdomen ferruginous; wings black, cinereous along the hind border for more than half its length from the base, veins as in the preceding species. ❋ Various (N/A)

Styles are free with plumose stigmas, laterally exserted. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Antennæ small; third joint elongate-conical, not extending more than half the length to the epistoma; arista plumose. ❋ Various (N/A)