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THE FLOWER
Flowering Plants
The Flower
A flower is a specialized shoot in which leaves
have been modified into the flora parts that
produce fruits and seeds after pollination and
fertilization.
The Flower
 SHOOT LEAVES FLORA
FRUITS SEEDS
THE FLOWER
Structure of Bisexual Flower
Structure of Bisexual Flower
A typical flower has four whorls
a) Two essential whorls – androecium and gynoecium
b) Two non essential whorls- calyx and corola
CALYX SEPALS
COROLA PETALS
ANDROECIUM STAMEN
GYNOECIUM CARPELS
CALYX
 OUTERMOST WHORL
SEPALS-> CALYX
 SEPALS= 5
 FREE AND FUSED
CONDITION
 POLYSEPALOUS-
FREE
 GAMOSEPALOUS-
FUSED
 GREEN, RED-
GULMOHAR
 PETALOIDS-BRIGHTLY
COLOURED SEPALS
FUNCTION OF CALYX
PROTECT THE FLOWER BUD
• BEFORE FLOWER OPEN->COMPLELY
ENCLOSED THE CAYX
• SEPAL REMAINED JOINED
• CALYX FORMS A TUBE THAT PROTECT
THE OVARY
• FLOWER BLOOM
• CALYX SEPARATE INTO SEPALS
COROLLA
2ND OUTERMOST
WHORLS
MADE OF PETALS
PETALS->COROLLA
SOMETIMES ARE
ABSENT
FUNCTION OF COROLLA
TO ATTRACT INSECTS AND BIRDS FOR
POLLINATION
MONOCOT PLANT-> MULTIPLE OF THREE
DICOT PLANT->MULTIPLES OF FOUR OR FIVE
ANDROECIUM
3RD WHORL FROM
OUTSIDE
STAMENS=>ANDRE
CIUM
NO. 1 TO 100
ANTHER AND
CONNECTIVITY
TWO ANTHER
LOBE=>TWO
POLLEN
SAC=>POLLEN
GRAINS
MONADELPHOUS
 THE STANMENS
ARE UNITED IN ONE
GROUP BY FUSION
OF THEIR
FILLAMENTS,
ANTHER BEING
FREE
DIADELPHOUS
THE STAMENS ARE
UNITED IN TWO
BUNDLES BY
FUSION OF THEIR
FILLAMENTS,
ANTHER BEING
FREE
PEA
POLYADELPHOUS
THE STAMENS ARE
UNITEDIN MANY
BUNDLES BY
FUSION OF THEIR
FILAMENTS,
ANTHER BEING
FREE
LEMON
GYNOECIUM
4TH AND
INNERMOST
WHORL
CARPELS=>GYNOE
CIUM
CARPEL=>STIGMA+
STYLE+OVARY
STIGMA
• STICKY PART AT THE TOP OF
PISTLE
STYLE
• THIN TUBE THAT LEADS FROM
THE STIGMA TO OVARY
OVARY
• ENLARGED AREASAT THE BASE OF
THE PISTILTHAT PRODUCE
PISTIL=SIMPLE(1
)/COMPOUND
PLACENTATION
 THE PLACENTA IS A
TISSUE THAT MOST
FRQUENTLY
DEVELOPS ON THE
MARIGINS OF
CARPELS
 EITHER THEIR
WHOLE LINE OF
UNION CALLED
SUTURE OR ATHE
APEX
 THE MANNER IN
WHICH THE
PLACENTAE ARE
DISTRIBUTED IN THE
CAVITY OF THE
OVARY IS KNOWN AS
PLACENTATION
COMPLETE OR INCOMPLETE
INCOMPLETE
• UNISEXUAL( ANDROECIUM OR GYNOECIUM)
• PAPAYA
COMPLETE
• BISEXUAL FLOWER OR HERMAPHRODITE
• CHINA ROSE, TOMATO, BRINJAL
NEUTER
• NEITHER ANDROECIUM NOR GYNOECIUM
• SUN FLOWER
FLOWER
THALAMUS NECTARIES
INFLORESCENCE
ARRANGEMENT OF
FLOWER ON SHOOT
PEDUNCLE-MAIN
AXIS
PEDICEL-SOLITARY
a) SOLITARY
TERMINAL-
POPPY
b) SOLITARY
AXILLARY-
HIBISCUS AND
PETUNIA
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