%0 Journal Article
%A Chang-Sheng Kuoh
%A Li-Chin Hsiao and Gwo-Ing Liao
%T Comparison of Upper Floret Development in Bisexual and Male Spikelets of Thuarea involuta (Gramineae) with Scanning Electron Microscopy
%D 1998
%J Taiwania
%V 43
%N 3
%P 235-245
%U https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/123
%X The inflorescences of Thuarea involuta (Forst.) R. Br. Ex R. & S. are composed of 3-7 spikelets in a spatheate spike. The spikelets have two florets. All of them are male, except that the basal spikelet has a bisexual upper floret and a male lower floret. A comparative study on the upper florets of the bisexual and male spikelet by SEM showed that the arrest of the development of gynoecium causes the maleness of the upper florets.
%M doi:10.6165/tai.1998.43(3).235