carpel

Occasionally, the number of stamens and carpels is altered and an ectopic floret occurs in the axil of the rachilla.

Stamens may mature before carpels, known as protandry, or after, protogyny.

(of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in butter cups or roses.

styles as many as carpels, united into a persistent column.

Male flowers: anthers clustered at top of androgynophore, enclosing undeveloped carpels.

Female flowers: androgynophore very short, staminodes at top of androgynophore in whorl around base of carpels.

Mature carpels dehiscing longitudinally.

Fruit enclosed by enlarged sepals, carpels dehiscing along ventral suture or indehiscent.

Leaf blade rhombic-ovate, broadly cuneate at base, abaxially veins convex, pedicels, bracteoles, and carpels pubescent.

anthers yellow. Disc wholly enveloping carpels, red-purple, leathery.

Leaf blade narrowly ovate, rounded at base, abaxially veins not convex, pedicels, bracteoles, and carpels glabrous.

Stamens and carpels numerous, inserted on convex, pulpy receptacle.

Carpels completely united, walls between locules of ovary single.

placentas parietal and equal in number to carpels, or basilar owing to reduction of ovules.

Flowers are formed in concentric whorls of sepals, petals, stamens and carpels.

Carpels only partially united, walls between locules of ovary double.

Female flowers: staminodes small, inserted at base of carpels.

Carpels and sepals glabrous; when mature, abaxial surface of leaf blade glabrous or only veins pubescent.

Petals 5, valvate, smaller than sepals, fleshy, keeled within, enlarged and enclosing carpels after anthesis and forming a pseudodrupe.

Carpels of male flowers rudimentary, ovoid, small.

Carpels nearly free, oblong, base attenuate or stalked.

This development can be most clearly seen in simple carpels such as those of the Fabaceae.

Styles persistent, short or absent, erect or curved, as many as carpels.

Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

Carpels nearly free, erect, ellipsoid.

Nectar scales opposite carpels.

Stigmas as many as carpels, short and curved downward.

anther ovoid. Carpels 14, free, adnate laterally to carpophore.

Carpels erect, equaling or slightly shorter than petals, adaxially gibbous, base connate for ca. 2 mm. Follicles stellately horizontal.

Carpels suberect, base subconnate.

Carpels 3, sparsely puberulent only on ventral suture. Fl. Jul.

Carpels 3, densely appressed pubescent. Fl. Jul.

Carpels 5, densely yellowish pubescent. Fl. May.

Nectar scales at or near base of carpels.

Carpels 5, densely tomentose.

Petaline spur ca. 1. 2 mm, not circinate; carpels sparsely pubescent.

Carpels usually 8, distinct.

Carpels 3, widely spreading in fruit.

Plant evergreen; carpels 5, with 2 fertile ovules per carpel.

Carpels 2--5, green or purple, glabrous or rarely tomentose.

Carpels free, ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm.

Fruit a schizocarp of 4 or 5 indehiscent prickly carpels.

Stem twining, 1--2. 5 m tall. Carpels sparsely spreading pubescent or glabrous.

Carpels 5(or 6), spreading pubescent. Fl. Jul.

Rachis densely spreading yellowish pubescent. Pedicels 1. 4--5. 5 cm. Carpels pubescent.

Carpels (3-)5(-15), seemingly free but basally connate, each with one ovule.

Carpels almost free, 6-12 mm. Styles short.

Capsule 1. A dry dehiscent fruit that is formed from several fused carpels.

Carpels apparently free, fruit deeply (3-)5-lobed mericarps; seeds 1 per locule.

Carpels subject or erect, 2. 5-4 mm. Seeds subovoid-oblong, smooth, winged at both ends.

2 (1) Seeds with slender concentric striations; carpels 6-10, connate.

Stamens ca. 0. 6 mm. Nectar scales spatulate-linear, ca. 0. 6 mm. Carpels oblong-ovoid.

Stem leaves crowded. Sepals sublinear-lanceolate, subequal, 5. 5-6 mm, shorter than petals. Carpels basally connate for ca. 0. 5 mm.

Carpels subsuperior to superior, united only at base, conical, with a basal, narrow, annular nectary;

Carpels many, rarely few, inserted on convex torus, each carpel becoming a drupelet or drupaceous achene;

Carpels numerous, free, spirally arranged on enlarged receptacle;

Carpels numerous, spirally arranged on a conical receptacle;

styles as many as carpels, free or partially united, erect or recurved, or fully united to form a column;

Carpels numerous, spirally arranged on a convex receptacle;

Carpels free, numerous, rarely few, inserted at margin or base of hypanthium, not or rarely stalked;

Carpels numerous, sessile or rarely stalked (R. podocarpus);

Fruit a schizocarp, oblate or disk-shaped, axis disk-shaped, not longer than carpels;

follicle dehiscent ; mature carpels rostrate spine at base

Carpels connate for most of placental region, dehiscent distally in fruit;

Fruit a loculicidal capsule, with carpels connate as in ovary;

Fruit a schizocarp, disk-shaped, fruit axis as long as or shorter than carpels;

Sepals yellow, frontal margin of upper sepal contracted; carpels 3

Carpels gray-white pubescent;

Female flowers solitary: ovary stipitate, composed of 2 connate carpels, 1-locular, elongate, compressed, glabrous, apex 2-lobed;

carpels united, with as many locules;

styles as many as carpels, slender;

a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels;

Capsules 2-horned or 2-lobed, with both carpels dehiscing along ventral suture;

Carpels almost free;

Ovary superior, disk absent, locules and carpels 3-5 or more;

Seeds as many as carpels;

Fruit a (2 or)3-5-carpelled loculicidal capsule or rarely indehiscent, with carpels connate as in gynoecium;

carpels 3 in female flowers, ovules ca. 20 per carpel;

Gynoecium of 3 carpels united to form a compound, 1-loculed ovary;

Carpels erect, 4-4. 5 mm, base connate for ca. 1 mm and wide, apically tapered;

Carpels erect, base connate for 1-1. 5 mm. Styles 1. 5-1. 7 mm. Follicles ovoid to subovoid-globose, many seeded;