Androecium
/an-DREE-shee-um/🌸 Flower Parts●● Intermediate
The androecium is the collective name for the male parts of a flower — every stamen it carries, together with any staminodes, the sterile stamens that bear no pollen. Botanists treat them as one unit because stamen count, arrangement, and whether the filaments stand free or are fused into a tube are dependable characters for separating plant families.
Etymology
From New Latin, from Greek andr- ("man") + oikion, a diminutive of oikos ("house") — literally the house of the male parts.
Example
“Counting the androecium is a standard early step in keying a specimen out, since ten stamens in two bundles is a strong family clue.”