pedicel

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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Capsule borne on a slender often elongated pedicel, splitting at maturity into 4 valves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The most reduced type of flower is that described in Euphorbia, where the male consists of one stamen separated from its pedicel by a joint, and the female of a naked tricarpellary pistil.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

Ovary inferior, appearing as a swelling below the calyx at the apex of the pedicel — 151. 151a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

In the second and third cirri, these two intermediate tufts on the lower segment of the pedicel, are not so distinctly separated from each other.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles