Parts of a Flower - Gynoecium -
Parts of a Flower - Gynoecium
- Gynoecium is the female reproductive whorl of the flower.
- It is made up of one or more carpels/pistils/megasporophyll.
- A carpel consists of stigma, style and ovary.
- Ovary is the enlarged basal part on which the elongated tube called style is present.
- The style connects the ovary to the stigma.
- The stigma present at the tip is receptive surface for the pollen grains.
- Ovary contains one or more ovules attached to a flattened cushion-like placenta.
- When more than one one carpels are present and they are free, the condition is called apocarpous, e.g., lotus and rose.
- When more than one carpels are present and they are fused, the condition is called syncarpous, e.g., mustard and tomato.
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Ovary contains one or more ovules attached to a flattened cushion-like placenta.
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