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Gynoecium of solanaceae is

Option: 1

Monocarpellary


Option: 2

Bicarpellary apocarpous


Option: 3

Bicarpellary syncarpous


Option: 4

Polycarpellary syncarpous


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Description of Some Important Families: Solanaceae

 

It is a large family, commonly called as the ‘potato family’. It is widely distributed in tropics, subtropics and temperate zones. 

Vegetative Characters

  • Plants mostly herbs, shrubs and rarely small trees
  • Stem: herbaceous rarely woody, aerial; erect, cylindrical, branched, solidor hollow, hairy or glabrous, underground stem in potato (Solanum tuberosum)
  • Leaves: alternate, simple, rarely pinnately compound, exstipulate; venation reticulate

Floral Characters

  • Inflorescence : Solitary, axillary or cymose as in Solanum
  • Flower: bisexual, actinomorphic
  • Calyx: sepals five, united, persistent, valvate aestivation
  • Corolla: petals five, united; valvate aestivation
  • Androecium: stamens five, epipetalous
  • Gynoecium: bicarpellary obligately placed, syncarpous; ovary superior, bilocular, placenta swollen with many ovules, axile
  • Fruits: berries or capsule
  • Seeds: many, endospermous

Floral Diagram:

Economic Importance:

source of food (tomato, brinjal, potato), spices (chilli); medicine (belladonna, ashwagandha); fumigatory (tobacco); ornamentals (petunia)

 

 

 

Gynoecium of solanaceae is bicarpellary syncarpous.

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