Meanings
adjectiveextragynoecial (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyOutside of the gynoecium
As with most Annonaceae, however, Disepalum flowers are apocarpous, and so it is hypothesized that pollen tubes are likely to be able to grow between contiguous carpels: this extragynoecial growth of pollen tubes has been reported in other apocarpous angiosperms [97 ,98 ,99 ].
2015 December 3, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Morphological Diversification and Generic Delimitation of Disepalum (Annonaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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