The mouth of the flower may have a white or pale area on the floor with a patch of hairs, and the staminode is usually hairy.
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The outer surface of the flower generally has glandular hairs, and on the inside there are hairs on the floor of the flower mouth and on the staminode.
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Stamens 10, free, unequal in size, 7 perfect and 3 reduced to staminode, filaments unequal, anther dithecous, basifixed, introrse and dehiscing by terminal pores.
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Flowers erect, red to yellow or scarlet, 6-10cm ( 2?4in ) long, composed of 6 coloured parts of about equal length; petals not reflexed; staminode one.
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The possession of 2-3 abaxial anthers is autapomorphous ( = a derived characteristic unique to a taxon ) in the Apostasioideae . " Apostasia nuda ", " Apostasia elliptica " and " Apostasia latifolia " lack a staminode.
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""'Furtadoa " "'is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae spadix is unique by having the male flowers ( except for those at the tip of the spadix ) each associated with a sterile female flower ( a pistillode ) in addition to each fertile female flower being associated with a sterile male flower ( staminode ).
