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adj. - Having pistils and stamens in separate flowers.

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  • Very many, perhaps all, diclinous flowers may, under certain conditions, become perfect, at least structurally.
  • Flowers diclinous, the pistillate taking the place of long shoots, the staminate taking the place of dwarf shoots.
  • Pinus is also peculiar in the dimorphism of shoots and leaves and in their constant interrelations with the diclinous flowers.
  • Antheridia clavate, one, or rarely more, on each oogonium, usually arising just below its basal wall, rarely of diclinous origin.
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