INCOMPLETE FLOWERS
Incomplete flowers are missing one or more of the four main flower parts -- male (stamen), female (pistil), petals or sepals.
See: Monoecious; Dioecious; Perfect Flowers; Complete Flowers; Incomplete Flowers ...
incomplete flower
A flower that is missing one of the following - sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils.
indeterminate ...
Incomplete flower - A flower lacking carpels, sepals, petals, and/or stamens.
Indeterminate growth - A type of growth in which a plant (or other organism) continues to grow throughout its life, until death.
incomplete flower A flower lacking one or more of the normal flower parts.
incomplete metamorphosis See simple metamorphosis.
A flower that has all four parts is said to be complete, whereas an incomplete flower lacks one or more of these four parts.
A complete, or perfect, flower contains both a female part-the pistil, usually composed of a stigma, style and ovary-and male parts-stamens, usually composed of a filament and an anther. An incomplete flower is either male or female.
 See also: Incomplete, Imperfect, Imperfect flower, Pistil, Stamen
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