- most
widespread in the gr**** family. However, the
largest genus of
cleistogamous plants is Viola.
Cleistogamy is
promoted in the
tomato plant by a modification...
- bud-like
cleistogamous ("closed marriage") flowers, and
pollination of
cleistogamous flowers is cleistogamy.
Unlike chasmogamous flowers,
cleistogamous flowers...
- is 1 to 2
centimeters wide, its
lobes sometimes ruffled. The
smaller cleistogamous (closed)
flowers are the main
producers of seed. Used
medicinally by...
- apomixis. Some
cleistogamous flowers never open, in
contrast to
chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Cleistogamous flowers are by necessity...
- are self-pollinated
before the
flowers open;
these flowers are
called cleistogamous; many
species in the
genus Viola exhibit this, for example. Conversely...
- Self-seeding
freely in
lawns and gardens, it can be
considered a weed by some.
Cleistogamous seed
heads may also
appear on
short stems in late
summer and
early autumn...
-
short cylindrical cacti native to
South America.
These species are
cleistogamous. They were
first classified in the
genus Echinocactus.
Species accepted...
- the season,
including chasmogamous flowers in the
early spring and
cleistogamous flowers summer through fall. Similar-looking
species include the round-leaved...
- bumblebees, butterflies, moths, flies, and sunbirds. Further, a few
cleistogamous species exist. However, most
species are
dependent on
pollinator activity...
- like most
plants but
obtains energy from its host fungi. It is also
cleistogamous,
meaning that it
produces flowers that
never open.
Since its flowers...
