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- Title
- <em>Helosis</em> - male flower
- Author
- Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
- Keywords
- Helosis, male flower
- Description
- Helosis, male flower
- The surface of an inflorescence of a Costa Rican Helosis, showing male flowers among the polygonal scales that have shrunken away from each other. The male flowers are reddish and bear white-tipped stamens. A male flower pulled away and shown on its side is at upper right: two petals diverge, and the stamens are in its center.
Return to the Helosis [1] page or the Parasitic Plant Index [2].
- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Additional data
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copyright: Carlquist, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Parasitic Plants
- Botanical Name
- <em>Helosis</em>
- Location Country
- Costa Rica
- Categories
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