a. Bot. [f. EPI- + PETAL + -OUS.] (See quots.)
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., i. (1858), 15. If [the filaments grow] upon the sides of the corolla, they are epipetalous.
1870. Bentley, Bot., 351. The stamens may be united separately to the corolla, when they are said to be epipetalous.
