Credits
Credits
Content Development & Coordination:
Cheung-Ming CHOW (Biology Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
Technical support and Testing:
Yiu-Man CHAN
Tin-Hang WONG
Yin-Chung LAW
Yan-Yuet Anna, TONG
Programming and illustration:
AVEEGO
www.aveego.com
This project is funded by Courseware Development Grant Scheme (2021-22), Teaching Develoopment and Language Enhancement for 2019-22 Triennium, CUHK.
All photos of plants remain the property of Cheung-Ming CHOW.
Cheung-Ming CHOW (Biology Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
Technical support and Testing:
Yiu-Man CHAN
Tin-Hang WONG
Yin-Chung LAW
Yan-Yuet Anna, TONG
Programming and illustration:
AVEEGO
www.aveego.com
This project is funded by Courseware Development Grant Scheme (2021-22), Teaching Develoopment and Language Enhancement for 2019-22 Triennium, CUHK.
All photos of plants remain the property of Cheung-Ming CHOW.
Credits
Content Development & Coordination: Cheung-Ming CHOW (Biology Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
Technical support and Testing:
Yiu-Man CHAN (Biology Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
Tin-Hang WONG
Programming and illustration: Xilva Multimedia (Introduction, Learn the Basic Terms!, Virtual Flower Dissection)
Inmedia Production (Interactive Dissection Manual)
This project is funded by Courseware Development Grant Scheme (2010-11), CUHK. All images remain the property of Cheung-Ming CHOW.
Technical support and Testing:
Yiu-Man CHAN (Biology Programme, School of Life Sciences, CUHK)
Tin-Hang WONG
Programming and illustration: Xilva Multimedia (Introduction, Learn the Basic Terms!, Virtual Flower Dissection)
Inmedia Production (Interactive Dissection Manual)
This project is funded by Courseware Development Grant Scheme (2010-11), CUHK. All images remain the property of Cheung-Ming CHOW.
© 2022 Interactive Virtual Flower Dissection Lab. All rights reserved
Hypanthium
‘Cup-shaped extension of the floral axis (i.e. the receptacle), enlargement of the basal part of the flower, seemingly bearing calyx, corolla, stamens and surrounding the ovary, solid or tubular, believed to be formed out of the fused bases of the calyx, corolla and stamens; sometimes imprecisely called a floral tube’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Ovary superior
‘When the sepals, petals and stamens are inserted below the ovary‘
‘When the receptacle bearing the calyx, corolla and stamens is expanded into a (free) hypanthium‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
‘When the receptacle bearing the calyx, corolla and stamens is expanded into a (free) hypanthium‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Ovary inferior
‘An ovary that has the calyx above it‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Ovary half-inferior
‘An ovary that is ‘partly below and partly above the level of attachment of the perianth and stamen; partially embedded in, or surrounded by, the receptacle‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Flower hypogynous
‘The sepals, petals and stamens inserted on the receptacle below and free from the ovary, the ovary thus being superior‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Flower perigynous
‘When the sepals, petals and stamens are carried up around the ovary on a hypanthium‘
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Flower epigynous
‘In epigynous flowers, the hypanthium is fused to the gynoecium, and the free parts of the sepals, petals, and stamens appear to be attached to the top of the gynoecium.‘
(angiosperm. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/plant/angiosperm/Reproductive-structures)
(angiosperm. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/plant/angiosperm/Reproductive-structures)
Placentation
‘Disposition (排列) of the placenta within the ovary’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Placenta
‘The part of the ovary to which the ovules or seeds are attached, sometimes raised or thickened’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Axile placentation
Ovules ‘attached to the axis of the ovary, or to the inner angle of the cells of a syncarpous (compound) ovary’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Parietal placentation
‘The ovules are attached to the inner surface of the outer wall of a (usually) one-celled syncarpous (compound) ovary’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Free-central placentation
‘Ovules attached to a freestanding axis in the center of a unilocular (one-celled) ovary’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Marginal placentation
A special kind of parietal placentation which can be found in the unicarpellated (simple) ovary
Apical placentation
‘When the placenta is at the top of the ovary and the ovule(s) hang down from it’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Basal placentation
‘When the ovules are attached to a central columnar placenta arising from the base of the ovary but not reaching to top’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Didynamous
‘(of stamens) in two pairs of unequal length’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Tetradynamous
‘With four long stamens and two short ones’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Syngenesious
‘With anthers fused but filaments free’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Epipetalous
‘(usually referring to stamens) united with the petals, often appearing as if implanted on the petals’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Monadelphous
‘(of stamens) in one bundle and connate by the filaments)’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
Diadelphous
‘In two bundles (usually said of stamens, particularly in Leguminosae/Fabaceae), often 9+1, but can also be 5+5)’
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))
(The Kew Plant Glossary (2nd Edition))