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An inferior ovary lies below the attachment of other floral parts. A pome is a type of fleshy fruit that is often cited as an example, but close inspection of some pomes (such as Pyracantha) will show that it is really a half-inferior ovary. Flowers with inferior ovaries are termed epigynous.
In an epigynous flower, the stamens, petals, and sepals are attached to the hypanthium at the top of the ovary or, occasionally, the hypanthium may extend beyond the top of the ovary. Epigynous flowers are often referred to as having an inferior ovary. Plant families with epigynous flowers include orchids, asters, and evening primroses.
The flower is bisexual, it contains 5 stamens, the pistil is fused of five carpels, and the ovary is inferior. A floral formula is a notation for representing the structure of particular types of flowers .
Coccinia species are dioecious, meaning that individual plants produce flowers with only male or only female organs. The sepals are connected and have five triangulate to lineal lobes. The corolla is also connected at the base and has five free lobes. The color of the corolla is creamy white to yellowish orange, rarely also snow-white or pinkish.
The flowers have three stamens and a gynoecium of three united carpels and an inferior ovary, three locules and axile placentation with fruit that is a loculicidal capsule. [ 2 ] Crocus is an acaulescent (lacking a visible lower stem above ground) diminutive seasonal cormous (growing from corms ) herbaceous perennial geophytic genus. [ 3 ]
It is among the basal families within the Poales and is the only family within the order that has septal nectaries and inferior ovaries. [4] These inferior ovaries characterize the Bromelioideae , a subfamily of the Bromeliaceae. [ 5 ]
The pedicels (flower stalks) may be glabrous (hairy) or smooth, a feature used in differentiating species. Individual flowers are lily-like, generally with a perianth that is zygomorphic (with one plane of symmetry) but may be actinomorphic (radially symmetrical or "regular").
Each zygomorphic flower consists of four floral leaves, with petals being scarlet, scarlet red, purple and in rare cases even white. The plant's sepals are reduced into very short and pointy flower bristles, that are usually in groups of 8. Knautia drymeia has so-called inferior ovary, with flower elements being set above it. [3]