Floral parts

anther
stamen
\ '
[androecium] filament
stigma)
r--71"---r~---,!... style pistil
~--ti~-r-"7~___ [gynoecium,
ovary I-co carpels]
petal
[corolla]
[perianth]
( sepal
[calyx]

(terms in square brackets are collective terms)

Flower attachment Flower sex

pedicellate sessile bisexual staminate pistillate

(pedicel present) (pedicel absent)
(male) (female) I

perfect imperfect

Floral composition

staminate pistillate apetalous asepalous

(pistils absent) (stamens absent) (petals absent) (sepals absent)
complete incomplete
(all four flower whorls present) (one or more flower whorls missing)
 Floral symmetry

,-gt.,(/",-
~ I ,
radiaU bilateral/
actinomorphic zygomorphic
(flowers can be divided in more (flowers can be divided only
than one plane of symmetry) in one plane of symmetry)

Perianth fusion

corolla
lobe

aposepalous aposepalous synsepalous synsepalous

apopetalous sympetalous apopetalous sympetalous

Gynoecium Androecium

pistil

I.s. c.s.
(longitudinal section) (cross section) filamentous laminar
 Fleshy indehiscent fruits

hypanthium

fl~e~~lrp
tissue
exoclllp m .. ex.. OCMP ovary
tissue
fleshy hard . .
endocarp endoclIlp. . cartilaginous
endoCIIl'P
seed'"
l.s. pedicel
berry drupe pome

Dry indehiscent fruits

pericarp
pericrup pericrup

achene grain/caryopsis
seed

samara
a Dut
1.s.

Dry dehiscent fruits

valves
t replum

~.,
2 lines of ~

@
t C.s.
dehiscence ~~......-
c.s.

t
2lines of
dehiscence

follicle legume silique silicle

-~
valves lines of

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~. .~
..•.' ..... ' '. "...................... dehiscence•................
'..'.'. "'_. . .•.
.......
. ',; .. " "-""~.···,-'c s ' ...'""", ,. c,s,
" t ..
loculicidal septicidal circumscissile poricidal
capsule capsule capsule capsule capsule

carpophore

schizocarp of mericarps schizocarp of nutlets

 Aggregate fruits

. perlcarp

G; .. 1.s.
unit
seed seed

achene endocarp

receptacle calyx

Aggregate fruit of achenes Aggregate fruit of drupes Aggregate fruits of follicles

Multiple fruits

unit achene
(longitudinal section)

multiple fruit of achenes multiple fruit of berries