A botanical classification for flowering plants that have exactly two stamens or male reproductive organs.
From Greek 'di-' (two) and 'aner' (man). Linnaeus created this term as the second class in his Sexual System for plant classification, published in 1753.
When Linnaeus published his Sexual System for plants, it scandalized 18th-century Europe because counting plant stamens and pistils made reproduction sound like gossip—priests complained it was indecent to discuss plant 'marriages'!
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