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
Spikelets 1-flowered, with a conspicuous filiform pedicel of an abortive second flower about half its length, nearly terete, few, in a simple appressed racemed panicle.
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
Ovary inferior, appearing as a swelling below the calyx at the apex of the pedicel — 106. 105b.
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
Sterile flowers numerous and lining the base of the involucre, each from the axil of a little bract, and consisting merely of a single stamen jointed on a pedicel like the filament; anther-cells globular, separate.
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
