COMPLETUS FLOS, in botany. A flower is said to be complete, which is provided with both the covers, viz. the calyx or flower-cup, and the petals. The term was invented by Vaillant, and is synonymous to calyculatus flor in Linnæus. Berkenhout erroneously confounds it with the auratus and calyculatus calyx of the same author.
COMPLETUS FLOS
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