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How to use valvate in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word valvate? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
The perianth is commonly uniseriate, consisting of 3-5 valvate, basally connate sepals, but sometimes an equal number of petals are also present.
The calyx and corolla are both valvate in bud, contrasting with the usual condition in both of the other subfamilies.
The flowers display valvate, distinct, or connate sepals and petals.
Iteaceae have spirally arranged serrate leaves, rather small flowers with valvate petals in racemose or paniculate clusters, and capsular fruits whose two carpels remain attached by the stigma.
A typical palm flower is small, with 3 imbricate sepals, 3 valvate petals, six stamens or staminodes, and 3 uniovulate carpels or a trifid pistillode.
Examples from Classical Literature
Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.
From Uvaria the Cananga differs in its valvate petals, and from Unona in the arrangement of the seeds in two rows.
Sepals 4, or rarely more, colored, the valvate margins turned inward in the bud.
Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.
Corolla pentamerous, gamopetalous and caducous, with valvate aestivation, presumably rotate and reflexed.
Corolla 4-parted, rarely 3-parted, wheel-shaped, valvate in the bud.
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