anthoid

1. (botany) A flower or, more commonly, a floret that has the simplest, most basic type of structure.Examples: "The functional reproductive units are either rather simple anthoids (as found in e.g., all or nearly all monocotyledons, and in amentiferous and most of the other monochlamydeous forms) or more intricately organised holanthocormoids (almost always, if not exclusively, zoophilous)."; "The assumption that in holanthocormous flowers the gonoclad bracts provided the sepaloid elements and the monandra the semaphyllous (petaloid) ones, whereas in anthoids only merandrial perianth members (tepals) can be present (each gonoclad bract remaining a bract subtending the anthoid), is in good agreement with the conditions actually encountered, the more so since we find that the theory requires a prevalence of solitary flowers in taxa with holanthocormous flowers, and of racemoid aggregates of anthoids in other taxa."; "The distal spikelets are reduced to solitary flowers (anthoids) leaving the raised areole-like elliptical scars when detached."