"Dioecious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only staminate or pistillate flowers. In Coix and Polytoca the plant bears both male and female spikelets in the same inflorescence, but in Zea on the same plant they occur as distinct inflorescences. The littoral grass Spinifex is dioecious. ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... entwine themselves among the tops of the highest trees, giving off many adventitious roots which seek the earth. The stem is covered with projecting tubercles. Leaves heart-shaped, pointed, entire with five well-marked nerves. Flowers yellowish-green, dioecious, growing in axillary racemes. The male flowers have a corolla of six petals, the three smaller ones arranged alternately. In the female flower the stamens are represented by three glands situated at the base of the ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera |
