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  2. Gynoecium - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Ovary (botany) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Coccinia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Floral formula - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Symphyotrichum - Wikipedia

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    The floret contains one inferior ovary, and this ovary contains one ovule. [a] The ovary has an attached style that extends outward from between the ray floret corolla and the rest of the flower head. As the ray floret is blooming, the stigma at the top of the style splits into two lobes.

  7. Clivia - Wikipedia

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    The flowers are arranged in umbels (i.e. the flower-stalks or pedicels radiate from a single point); each umbel has a long stalk or peduncle. Several bracts subtend the umbels. Each flower has six stamens and an inferior ovary (i.e. one which is below the tepals) made up of three locules. The stamens have long filaments and anthers which are ...

  8. Zingiberales - Wikipedia

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    Flowers are generally large and showy, following the general monocot pattern, with inflorescences in thyrse-like spikes, zygomorphic to asymmetric, with two trimerous whorls of tepals. Gynoecium tricarpellate, ovary epigynous (inferior), two trimerous androecial whorls with stamens 6, 5 or 1. Stamens have elongated sterile filaments to which ...

  9. Crocus - Wikipedia

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    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 ]