Webster County. Our new website was brought online in May 2012 with the help of MIPS Inc. MIPS Inc is the Technology Services Division of the Nebraska Association of County Officials (NACO). NACO's website address is www.nacone.org.
The stamen is a very important part of the flower because it contains the male reproductive organs. The stamen is comprised of the filament, which is the long, slender stalk, and the anther, which is at the top of the filament and is where pollen grains are produced. The main function of the stamen is to produce the pollen grains, which house male gametes, or sex cells, necessary for reproduction.
Stamens (microsporophylls) are structures that produce pollen in terminal saclike structures (microsporangia) called anthers. The number of stamens comprised by the androecium is sometimes the same as the number of petals, but often the stamens are more numerous or fewer in number than the petals. There are generally two pairs of spore-containing sacs (microsporangia) in a young stamen; during...