<Li> Filament derives from classical Latin filum, meaning "thread" </Li> <Li> Anther derives from French anthère, from classical Latin anthera, meaning "medicine extracted from the flower" in turn from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρά, feminine of ἀνθηρός, "flowery", from ἄνθος, "flower" </Li> <Li> Androecium derives from Ancient Greek ἀνήρ meaning "man", and οἶκος meaning "house" or "chamber / room". </Li> <P> Depending on the species of plant, some or all of the stamens in a flower may be attached to the petals or to the floral axis . They also may be free - standing or fused to one another in many different ways, including fusion of some but not all stamens . The filaments may be fused and the anthers free, or the filaments free and the anthers fused . Rather than there being two locules, one locule of a stamen may fail to develop, or alternatively the two locules may merge late in development to give a single locule . Extreme cases of stamen fusion occur in some species of Cyclanthera in the family Cucurbitaceae and in section Cyclanthera of genus Phyllanthus (family Euphorbiaceae) where the stamens form a ring around the gynoecium, with a single locule . </P>

What does a anther do in a flower