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noun - a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
A usually dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual, apetalous flowers found in willows, birches, and oaks.
noun - a flower cluster
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| A usually dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual apetalous flowers found in willows, birches, and oaks. Also called ament1. |
| a downy, hanging flowering spike of trees such as willow and hazel, pollinated by the wind. |
| a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence |
| a group of small flowers hanging like short pieces of string from the branches of particular trees in the spring: |
| A downy, hanging flowering spike of trees such as willow and hazel, pollinated by the wind. |
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A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in Salix). They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem which is often drooping. They are found in many plant families, including Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Moraceae, and Salicaceae. For some time, they were believed to be a key synapomorphy among the proposed Hamamelididae, also known as Amentiferae (i.e., literally plants bearing aments). Based on molecular phylogeny work, it is now believed that Hamamelididae is a polyphyletic group. This suggests that the catkin flower arrangement has arisen at least twice independently by convergent evolution, in Fagales and in Salicaceae. Such a convergent evolution raises questions about what the ancestral inflorescence characters might be and how catkins did evolve in these two lineages. * In many of these plants, only the male flowers for |