Meaning of carpodium | Babel Free

Definitions

An abortive carpel, as in Typha.

Examples

“[…] the carpodia occupy the central position which is normal for the pistil, but quite often two or three abortive female flowers occur adjacent to one another and become more or less fused together.”

“[…] ovary and ovule are imperfectly developed or modified into a carpodium with a short style but lacking the expanded stigma of the fertile flower.”

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