• the carpel margin meristem (arising from the carpel primordium ) produces the ovules , ovary septum, and the transmitting track, and plays a role in fusing the apical margins of carpels. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ovary (from Latin ovum , meaning egg) is the enlarged basal portion which contains placentas , ridges of tissue bearing one or more ovules (integumented megasporangia ). (wikipedia.org)
  • [note 1] A carpel is the female reproductive part of the flower-usually composed of the style, and stigma (sometimes having its individual ovary, and sometimes connecting to a shared basal ovary) -and usually interpreted as modified leaves that bear structures called ovules , inside which egg cells ultimately form. (wikipedia.org)
  • ovary superior or inferior, chambers generally 1--5, placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1--many per chamber, style 1, stigma head- to funnel-like or lobed. (berkeley.edu)
  • The key difference between apocarpous and syncarpous is that the apocarpous ovary bears two or more unfused carpels , while the syncarpous ovary bears two or more fused carpels. (differencebetween.com)
  • The gynoecium is the female part of the flower that bears the ovary, ovules, stigma , and style . (differencebetween.com)
  • Apocarpous is a type of ovary of a flowering plant that bears two or more unfused carpels in the gynoecium. (differencebetween.com)
  • A flower bearing an apocarpous ovary is known as an apocarpous flower. (differencebetween.com)
  • A flower bearing a syncarpous ovary is called a syncarpous flower. (differencebetween.com)
  • Carpel refers to the female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style, occurring singly or as one of a group, while pistil refers to the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organs of a flower. (pediaa.com)
  • 2. the ovules are enclosed in structures called ovary. (examples10.com)
  • Right: Longitudinal section of a pistil showing a pollen tube growing from the pollen grain on the stigma, down the style, and into the ovary, where it is fertilizing an ovule. (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • In angiosperms, the ovules that contain the megagametophytes (female or egg-producing gametophytes) are enclosed in an ovary. (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • The pollen grains of angiosperms cannot land directly on the ovules because the ovules are enclosed in a floral structure called an ovary (the ovary is indicated in the figure at the top of the page). (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • The pollen tube must grow from the pollen grain on the stigma, down the style, and into the ovary to make contact with an ovule. (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • The ovule is attached to the inner ovary wall by a stalk called a funiculus or funicle . (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • Each carpel has three parts: Ovary- The 0basal, swollen part in which ovules are present. (physicscatalyst.com)
  • 5) Each carpel has a terminal stigma and a basal ovary with a single ovule. (bdword.com)
  • 7) At the septum, pollen tubes migrate into the ovary and approach an ovule containing an FG. (bdword.com)
  • Ovary with numerous ovules. (globalpollenproject.org)
  • In anatropous ovule (the most common type) the funicle continues beyond the hilum alongside the body of ovule, forming a sort of ridge, called the raphe. (pw.live)
  • of certain plants) in the state of bearing ripened seeds. (dictionary.com)
  • gynoecia ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds . (wikipedia.org)
  • Specifically, they are gymnosperms , meaning that the seeds are not formed in an ovule that is enclosed (and developing into a fruit , as in the other type of seed plants, the angiosperms ), but naked on the scales of a cone or cone-like structure. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • They were the ancestors of contemporary gymnosperms , of which four surviving teams are widespread at present, particularly the conifers , which are dominant bushes in several biomes The identify gymnosperm comes from the Greek composite phrase γυμνόσπερμος (γυμνός gymnos, "bare" and σπέρμα sperma, "seed"), as the ovules and subsequent seeds aren't enclosed in a protecting construction (carpels or fruit), but are borne bare, sometimes on cone scales. (garden-marlborough.com)
  • 3.after fertlisation, the ovules become seeds. (examples10.com)
  • When sliced in two, the apple also reveals a five-part core, created from the five carpels that bear the ovules. (drhauschka.com)
  • It bears four types of floral leaves such as sepals, petals, stamens and carpels. (physicscatalyst.com)
  • in angiosperms (flowering plants) the ovule is protected by the megasporophyll which forms a closed structure ( carpel ) within which they form singly, or in numbers. (daviddarling.info)
  • They are borne singly, spirally arranged on the long shoots, and in dense clusters of 20-50 needles on the short shoots. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The process of the formation of megaspores in megasporangium (ovule) from megaspore mother cell by reductional division is called megasporogenesis. (pw.live)
  • The integumented megasporangium is called ovule. (pw.live)
  • Furthermore, the three parts of the ovule are the integument, the outer layer, the nucellus, the remnant of the megasporangium, and the female gametophyte formed from a haploid megaspore. (pediaa.com)
  • Unlike gymnosperm ovules, angiosperm ovules often have a double integument , or two distinct integuments that surround the nucellus (megasporangium, the megaspore-producing sporangium) in which the megagametophyte develops. (digitalatlasofancientlife.org)
  • Each flower has about four to nine petals, two locules, and one to four ovules. (babkakorenarka.com)
  • Female cones composed of thick and often woody, peltate scales bearing 2 (or more) ovules on their adaxial surface. (co.zw)
  • fertile scales ± peltate, bearing 2 pollen-sacs towards base. (zambiaflora.com)
  • A flower is generally borne on the lateral side of the peduncle at a node in the axil of the leaf-like structure called bract. (physicscatalyst.com)
  • The placenta bears one or more ovules. (pw.live)
  • ovule solitary, soon becoming enclosed by a fleshy false aril . (zambiaflora.com)
  • Each ovule is attached to the carpel wall by a stalk or funicle which arises from its base (chalaza). (daviddarling.info)
  • apical rachillae 3-4 cm long, bearing only staminate flowers and appearing like the staminate portion of basal rachillae. (trebrown.com)
  • It is dioecious , with flowers borne on cymose inflorescence at the leaf axils of young shoots. (wikipedia.org)
  • Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are called pistillate or carpellate . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also defined as the gynoecium that bears a free pistil. (differencebetween.com)
  • the organ that bears the ovules of a flower. (wordinn.com)
  • The placentas and/or ovule(s) may be born on the gynoecial appendages or less frequently on the floral apex. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, it is a megasporophyll, which is a modified leaf bearing ovule . (pediaa.com)
  • Placentas are ridges of tissues bearing one or more ovules. (pediaa.com)
  • Phrymaceae is a family of mostly herbs and a few subshrubs, bearing tubular, bilaterally symmetric flowers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bulbous herbs with erect leaf-bearing stems and large solitary (rarely 2) erect flowers. (chestofbooks.com)
  • Flowers are borne in dense, separated clusters, in leaf-axils. (flowersofindia.net)
  • Flowers whitish when fresh, borne on a short pedicel and subtended by a small, narrow triangular bract. (trebrown.com)
  • Flowers borne in axillary false racemes in groups of 1-3. (globalpollenproject.org)
  • In this image of a stained cross-section of a Cycas media ovule, the vascular bundles in the center are starting to divide into three separate bundles as opposed to two. (nybg.org)
  • Trunk tall or very short, bearing spirally arranged leaf-bases and scale leaves. (co.zw)
  • stem erect or arching, bearing in the upper part numerous alternate lvs in 2 ranks and short, axillary, 1-15- fld peduncles with pendulous, white to greenish or yellow fls. (nybg.org)
  • The shoots are dimorphic, with growth divided into long shoots typically 10 to 50 centimeters (4 to 20 inches) long and bearing several buds, and short shoots only one to two millimeters long with only a single bud. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • epaleate receptacles sometimes bristly or hairy or bearing subulate enations among the florets. (vplants.org)
  • Organisms which bear both male and female sex organs in the same individual are called bisexual. (assignmentsbag.com)