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5.Morphology of Flowering Plants
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Pentamerous actinomorphic flowers, bicarpellary ovary with oblique septa, and fruit capsule or berry, are characteristic features of

A

Liliaceae

B

Asteraceae

C

Brassicaceae

D

Solanaceae.

(AIPMT-2006)

Solution

(d) : A pentamerous actinomorphic flower is one where the floral parts are in multiples of five and the flower can be divided into two equal halves in more than one plane. Gynoecium is bicarpellary, syncarpous, forming a superior bilocular ovary. Each locule has many ovule on axile placentation. Members of solanaceae are characterised by the presence of an obliquely placed septum in the ovary and highly swollen placentae.

Standard 11
Biology

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