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A flower with a functional pistil but no functional stamens is called a pistillate flower, or (inaccurately) a female flower. [15] An abortive or rudimentary stamen is called a staminodium or staminode, such as in Scrophularia nodosa. The carpels and stamens of orchids are fused into a column. [16]
Pistils begin as small primordia on a floral apical meristem, forming later than, and closer to the (floral) apex than sepal, petal and stamen primordia. Morphological and molecular studies of pistil ontogeny reveal that carpels are most likely homologous to leaves. [citation needed]
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.
The gynoecium, consisting of one or more carpels, is the female part of the flower found on the innermost whorl. Each carpel consists of a stigma, which receives pollen, a style, which acts as a stalk, and an ovary, which contains the ovules. [2] Carpels may occur in one to several whorls, and when fused are often described as a pistil.
The stigma, together with the style and ovary (typically called the stigma-style-ovary system) comprises the pistil, which is part of the gynoecium or female reproductive organ of a plant. The stigma itself forms the distal portion of the style, or stylodia, and is composed of stigmatic papillae , the cells of which are receptive to pollen.
Another term, pistil, refers to the ovary as its expanded base, the style, a column arising from the ovary, and an expanded tip, the stigma. [ 8 ] Within the stamen, the microsporangium forms grains of pollen , surrounded by a protective microspore, which form the male gametophyte.
In dimorphic sexual systems, individual plants within a species only produce one sort of flower, either hermaphrodite or male, or female. Dimorphic sexual systems include dioecy, gynodioecy, androdioecy, and trioecy. [7] Male (a.k.a. staminate) flowers have a stamen but no pistil and produce only male gametes. Female (a.k.a. pistillate) flowers ...
The pistil may be made up of one carpel or of several fused carpels (e.g. dicarpel or tricarpel), and therefore the ovary can contain part of one carpel or parts of several fused carpels. Above the ovary is the style and the stigma, which is where the pollen lands and germinates to grow down through the style to the ovary, and, for each ...