androphorum

plural androphora

1. biologyA stalk-like extension of the center of a flower from which the stamens emerge.

   When all the stamina are united into two androphora; in other words, when their filaments are united into two distinct bodies, they are said to be Diadelphous (St. diadelpha);

   1831, A[chille] Richard, translated by W. Macgillivray, Elements of Botany and Vegetable Physiology, Including the Characters of the Natural Families of Plants, with Illustrative Figures, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, page 221

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   Flower of a malvacea: a, the calyx; b, the corolla; c, the stamens united in a tubular androphorum (from the Greek aner, man, or in Botany, a stamen, and pherein to bear—a columnar expansion of the centre of the flower upon which the stamens seem to grow;) d, the stigmata.

   1844, W[illiam] S. W. Ruschenberger, Elements of Botany. Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Philadelphia, Pa; New York, N.Y.: Turner & Fisher, page 76

   In Couroupita (Plate XXXIII. b), as in the following genera, we find a floral structure analogous in its peculiarities to that of Gustavia, but offering a different appearance, owing to a modification in the form of its singular androphorum.

   1873 June 5, John Miersen, “On the Lecythidaceæ”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XXX, part the second, London, published 1874, page 159

   Synonyms: androphore