Botanical Words Alphabetical List - IS

ISADELPHOUS: Having the separate bundles of stamens equal in number, as in the flowers of beans.

ISANDROUS: Having the stamens similar and equal in number to the divisions of the corolla.

ISANTHOUS: Having regular flowers.

ISOGYNOUS: Having the pistils, or the carpels of which the single pistil is composed, equal in number to the sepals.

ISOMEROUS: Composed each of an equal number of parts, as the members of the several circles of a flower; exhibiting isomerism.

ISOSTEMONOUS: Having the stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.

ISOSTEMONY: The state of being isostemonous.

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