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stylopodium
[ stahy-luh-poh-dee-uhm ]
noun
- a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
stylopodium
/ ˌٲɪəˈəʊɪə /
noun
- botany a swelling at the base of the style in umbelliferous plants
Word History and Origins
Origin of stylopodium1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stylopodium1
Example Sentences
Fruit oblong to ovate, glabrous, with slender equal ribs, numerous oil-tubes, and depressed or cushion-like stylopodium.—Glabrous perennials, with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, involucre and involucels scanty or none, and white or yellow flowers.
The base of the styles is frequently thickened and cushion-like, and called the stylopodium.
Fruit oblong, with slender ribs, no oil-tubes, and prominent flat stylopodium.
Fruit ovate or oblong, flattened laterally; stylopodium conical; prickles barbed or hooked; seed-face deeply sulcate.
Glaucous, 1–3° high, slender, branching; leaves 2–3-ternate, with lanceolate to ovate entire leaflets; flowers yellow; fruit broadly oblong, 2´´ long; stylopodium small or wanting.
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