apocarpous

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ap·o·car·pous

(ăp′ə-kär′pəs)

adj.

Having carpels that are free from one another. Used of a single flower with two or more separate pistils, as in roses.

ap′o·car′py (ăp′ə-kär′pē) n.

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apocarpous

(ˌæpəˈkɑːpəs)

adj

(Botany) (of the ovaries of flowering plants such as the buttercup) consisting of separate carpels. Compare syncarpous

[C19 from NL, from Gk apo- + karpos fruit]

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Adj.

apocarpous - (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses

plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

syncarpous - (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels

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In all four genera, the ascidiate carpel develops from a tilted ring-like primordium and has one dorsal bundle and one ventral bundle supplying the ovule, as in ANITA-grade taxa that are apocarpous or unicarpellate (e.g.

Phylogenetic Analyses of Cretaceous Fossils Related to Chloranthaceae and their Evolutionary Implications

Female flowers in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) possess tricarpellary apocarpous pistil consisting of three independent carpels, while rudimentary androecium is represented by two whorls of three staminodes each alternately arranged in antepetalous and antesepalous position (DeMason et al., 1982).

Hormonal Basis of Shees' Fruit Abnormality in Tissue Culture Derived Plants of Date Palm

Most Annonaceae are apocarpous and have sessile stigmas which usually become detached at the end of the pistillate phase.

Evolutionary steps in the reproductive biology of annonaceae/A evolucao da biologia reprodutiva de annonaceae

Flowers are apocarpous, bearing one or a few independent carpels (2.1 [+ or -] 0.9 carpels per flower, mean [+ or -] 1 SD; range = 1-5; N = 89 flowers).

MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF POLLINATORS AND HERBIVORES: EVIDENCE FOR NON-ADDITIVITY IN A PERENNIAL HERB

A second case of "unorthodox" evolutionary direction is the evolution of apocarpous gynoecia from syncarpous ancestors.

Morphology and angiosperm systematics in the Molecular era

The "Pleiocarpinae," char acterized by apocarpous ovaries and conspicuous gaps in the corolla tube just above insertion of the stamens, is removed from the "Carisseae" and is treated as a separate tribe--the Hunterieae--as was proposed earlier (Fallen, 1986, as Pleiocarpeae).

A Revised Classification of the Apocynaceae s.l

One to 13 free carpels are aggregated, but with their ventral sutures facing outward, rather than inward as in most apocarpous flowers.