having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
: also ˌcleistoˈgamic (ˌklaɪstəˈgæmɪk)
Word origin
< Gr kleistos, closed (see close2) + -gamous
Examples of 'cleistogamous' in a sentence
cleistogamous
These last ones are chasmogamous and underground flowers are cleistogamous.
Gabriela Speroni, Primavera Izaguirre, Gabriel Bernardello 2010, 'Sobre las causas ontogénicas de la productividad diferencial de semillas en la especieanficárpica Trifolium polymorphum (Leguminosae) On the causes of the differentialseed production in the anficarpic species Trifolium polymorphum (Leguminosae)', Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánicahttp://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1851-23722010000100005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cleistogamous flowers shed their pollen before flower opening, which leads to autogamy.
Meilin Zou, Gaofeng Zhou, Tefera Tolera Angessa, Xiao-Qi Zhang, Chengdao Li 2018, 'Polymorphism of floral type gene Cly1 and its association with thermal stress in barley.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5832248?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This species produces no cleistogamous or blind flowers.
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
This species produces an abundance of late cleistogamous flowers on erect stems.
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Cleistogamous and chasmogamous are two opposing phenomena for flowering in barley.
Xinzhong Zhang, Baojian Guo, Guofang Lan, Hongtao Li, Shen Lin, Jun Ma, Chao Lv, RugenXu 2016, 'A major QTL, which is co-located with cly1, and two minor QTLs are associated withglume opening angle in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01585/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Underground flowers are cleistogamous, obligately autogamous and morphologically highly modified in structure and function.
Gabriela Speroni, Primavera Izaguirre, Gabriel Bernardello, Jorge Franco 2009, 'Intrafloral phenology of Trifolium polymorphum Poir. (Leguminosae) aerial flowersand reproductive implications Fenologia intrafloral das flores aéreas de Trifoliumpolymorphum Poir. (Leguminosae) e suas implicações reprodutivas', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062009000300029. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Sometimes the flowers are cleistogamous (see violet wood-sorrel).
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Morphological differences between chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers are discussed and illustrated.
B-E. van Wyk 1990, 'Studies in the genus Lotononis (Crotalarieae, Fabaceae). 13. Two new speciesand notes on the occurrence of cleistogamy in the section Leptis', Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservationhttps://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/889. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Every plant which bears cleistogamous or blind flowers - violets, wood-sorrel, jewelweed,among others - must also display some showy ones.
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Abundant cleistogamous flowers (see blue violets and white wood sorrel) are borne on the runners late in the season.
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)