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. 2016 Feb 4;4:e1653. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1653

Figure 12. Male flowers of Triuris hexophthalma (A–C LM of transverse sections, D SEM).

Figure 12

(A) TS unopened flower bud through androphore. (B) Detail of anther and underlying densely cytoplasmic region. (C) anther locule containing pollen grains. (D) Open male flower with prominent central androphore and six sessile half anthers. Labels: al, anther locule containing pollen grains; ap, androphore; dcc, region of cells with dense cytoplasmic contents; fta, filamentous tepal appendage; st, half anther; tep, tepal. Scale bars: in A, B and D = 100 μm, in C = 20 μm. An earlier version Figure 12D was published previously (Rudall, 2003; Rudall, 2008) and is reproduced here with permission from the International Journal of Plant Sciences (University of Chicago Press).