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Bearing both male and female reproductive organs; usually, flowers with both stamen s and carpel s; synonymous with hermaphrodite, synoecious, and monoclinous. Bisexual flowers occur only on monoecious plants. See also androgynous, monoicous, and plant reproductive morphology. bitegmic (of an ovule) Covered by two integument s. Contrast unitegmic.
For example, Helwingia japonica has epiphyllous flowers (ones that form on the leaves). [5] Epiphyte – growing on another organism but not parasitic. Not growing on the ground. Epiphytic – having the nature of an epiphyte. Equinoctial – a plant that has flowers that open and close at definite times during the day.
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, [1] is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower.
Unlike (most) animals, plants grow new organs after embryogenesis, including new roots, leaves, and flowers. [3] In the flowering plants, the gynoecium develops in the central region of the flower as a carpel or in groups of fused carpels. [4]
Stamen is the Latin word meaning "thread" (originally thread of the warp, in weaving). [8]Filament derives from classical Latin filum, meaning "thread" [8]; Anther derives from French anthère, [9] from classical Latin anthera, meaning "medicine extracted from the flower" [10] [11] in turn from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρά (anthērá), [9] [11] feminine of ἀνθηρός (anthērós) meaning ...
Close-up of a Schlumbergera flower, showing part of the gynoecium (specifically the stigma and part of the style) and the stamens that surround it. Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.
In flowering plants, a floral primordium gives rise to a flower. Although it is a frequently used term in plant biology, the word is used in describing the biology of all multicellular organisms (for example: a tooth primordium in animals, a leaf primordium in plants or a sporophore primordium in fungi. [2])
In some plants the flowers have no petals, and all the tepals are sepals modified to look like petals. These organs are described as petaloid, for example, the sepals of hellebores. When the undifferentiated tepals resemble petals, they are also referred to as "petaloid", as in petaloid monocots, orders of monocots with brightly coloured tepals.