Floral Ontogeny

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Floral Ontogeny

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Ranunculus acris L. - Side-view of a young floral bud showing three flat sepal primordial and several roundish stamen primordia on the dome-shaped floral apex.

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Hibbertia scandens (Willd.) Dryand – Top view of a young floral bud from which the sepal primodia have been removed to show five petal primodia and the first signs of androecial inception at the periphery of the flat floral apex.

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Hibbertia scandens (Willd.) Dryand– Top view of a young floral bud from which all sepal primordial and all except one petal primordia have been removed to show many stamen primordia and five carpel primordia in the center, two of which are still barely noticeable.

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Hibbertia scandens (Willd.) Dryand– Top view of a floral bud from which all sepal and petal primordial have been removed to show many stamen primordia and carpel primodia that have become folded.

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Potamogeton densus L. – Side-view of a young inflorescence showing one very young floral bud in top view. On the floral bud the primordia of four tepals have been initiated. Stamen inception is barely noticeable in the lower half of the bud.

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Potamogeton densus L. – Top view of a young floral bud at the tip of the inflorescence. Four stamen primordia have been initiated opposite the four tepal primordia. Each of the lateral stamens arises as two separate primordia that become confluent later on.

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Potamogeton densus, young gynoecium

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Butomus umbellatus, perianth initiation

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Butomus umbellatus, stamen initiation

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Butomus umbellatus, carpels

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Cyclamen orbiculatum, sepal inception

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Cyclamen coum, petal-stamen inception

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Cyclamen coum, stamen differentiation

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Cyclamen coum, ovary wall inception

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Cyclamen coum, ovary wall inception

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Cyclamen persicum, anthesis, long section

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Cyclamen coum, anthesis

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Zea mays L., spike

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