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CARPEL PELTATION AND SYNCARPY IN CORIARIA RUSCIFOLIA L.
Author(s) -
Guédès M.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1971.tb02525.x
Subject(s) - gynoecium , biology , botany , stamen , pollen
S ummary The gynoecium of Coriaria ruscifolia is made up of five carpels joined in their lower parts. It is interpreted as syncarpous, not apocarpous, and is considered to represent five peltate carpels free above a very short ventral split and joined narrowly below the split along their median parts, as by so many longitudinal strips. The free part of each carpel consists of the unifacial style (without ventral split) and its short junction with the associate part of the carpel at the level of the ventral split. The joined parts are the ascidiate regions of the carpels with their solid basal union. The study of phyllodic gynoecia enables us to discover the homologies between carpel and leaf in Coriaria and to explain more clearly the peltation concept, which appears to have been misunderstood by English‐speaking botanists.