Carpels
Carpels consist of a
stigma, usually mounted at the tip of a
style with an
ovary at the base.
carpel -- A unit of the pistil; it is evolutionarily a modified leaf.
cataphyll -- In cycads, a scale-like modified leaf which protects the developing true leaves.
carpels The female reproductive structures of a flower; consisting of the ovary, style, and stigma. PICTURE
carrageenan Chemical extracted from red algae that is added to commercial ice creams as an emulsifying agent.
carpel
(kar-pel) [Gk. karpos, fruit]
The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary.
carrying capacity ...
Carpels the wrist bones
(carpo = wrist)
Caryophyllaceae plant family commonly known as the pinks because the flower petals have jagged edges as though cut with pinking shears; typically the stems are swollen at the joints ...
carpel
The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of the stigma, style and ovary.
carpel The reproductive unit of angiosperms composed of a placental surface and ovules. A component of the gynoecium.
carpellate A unisexual flower having carpels but no stamens.
carpospore spores produced by the carposporophyte form of red algae ...
In flowering plants, the anther produces male gametophytes, the sperm is produced in pollen grains, which attach to the stigma on top of a carpel, in which the female gametophytes (inside ovules) are located.
Hermaphrodite is used in botany to describe a flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) and carpelate (female, seed-producing) parts. Other terms for this condition are bisexual and perfect.
Like the stamen, the carpel is thought to be a modified leaf. Work by I.W. Bailey and his students pointed to an evolutionary sequence from primitive angiosperms (like Drimys ) to "normal" carpels like those of Lilium..
plants with seeds enclosed by carpels, that is, ovaries; contrast to gymnosperm
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
A flowering plant. Seeds are enclosed by a matured ovary (fruit).
The unit of female reproduction of a flower, may be comprised of a single carpel or two or more carpels united.
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It surrounds Whorl 2, which is fated to become the petals, the white inner floral leaves. Whorl 3 is fated to become stamens, which contains the male organs. The innermost whorl (Whorl 4) is fated to become the carpels, which will form the ovary (Fig.
flower - a shoot of the sporophyte of a higher plant that is modified for reproduction and consists of a shortened axis bearing modified leaves; especially, one of a seed plant differentiated into a calyx, corolla, stamens, and carpels (Webster) ...
Their ovules are enclosed in the carpel and pollen travels through the pollen tube to reach it. Angiosperms evolved in the Cretaceous era together with the Mammals. Angiosperms in Tree of Life.
 See also: Flower, Plant, Trans, Animal, Cells
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