anthera

The scientific name is derived from a combination of the Greek aden, "a gland," and anthera, "anther"; alluding to the anthers being tipped with a deciduous gland.

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Stamina diadelpha, simplex et novemfidum; antherae subrotundae v. reniformes, valvula ventrali anthera dimidio minore subrotunda.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

Species, quas Tbunberg huc retulit, inser - tione anthera rum ad os tubi sessilium conveniunt; hinc, concinna distinctio.

Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796

Tims as to the male organs, the filaments are the fpermatic veffels, the anthera the tefticles, and the duft of the anthera correfponds to the fperm and feminal animalcules; and as to the female, the ftigma is the internal part of the female organ which receives the duft, the ftyle anfwers to the vagina, the germ to the ovarv, and the perlcarpium, or fecundated ovary, to the womb.

A treatise on the culture of the cucumber; shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant, with full directions for the management thereof, and the degree of heat it requires on every day of the year; and a meteorological journal of the weather and temperature of the climate in lat. 51 20£ north, long. 0 1£ east of London MacPhail, James, fl. 1785-1805 1795

At the union of these is placed the double anthera sup - porting the long filiform style, which frequently appears like a

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

Although differing greatly m its habit from the rest of the order, it appears to be a true Scitamineah plant; the anthera embracing the style, and the dried flowers, when immersed in boiling water, emitting a strong aromatic odour.

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

By some the interior limb of the corolla, when it consists only of one petal, is called the nectary J, whilst others apply that name to both the interior petal and its opposite anthera-bearing filament, considering the nectary as bila* - biate§.

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

The essential character consists in the single anthera, attached to the margin of the petaUlike filament; and in the strong erect club-shaped style,

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

Maranta agrees with Canna in the single anthera being at - tached to the petal-like filament; but is sufficiently distinguished by the broad, petal-like, reflected style, tehriinated by an angu - lar stigma.

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

Stamina decenl, ibidem inferta, alterna petalis., al - terna calici oppofita, filamentis interdum bafi coalitis; anthera: fiibrotundx.

Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789