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adj. - Exhibiting or relating to the production (as in violets and pansies) of small inconspicuous nonopening self-pollinating flowers additional to and often bearing more seeds than the showier type

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  • Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
  • There were highly significant effects of competition on shoot mass and number of seeds matured in cleistogamous CL spikelets.
  • To determine whether resource partitioning or kin selection is more likely to describe the dynamics of local competition, a greenhouse experiment was conducted with Triplasis...
  • This species produces no cleistogamous or blind flowers.
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