Flowers
Style type
Attenuated, non-ovule-bearing portion of carpel between stigma and ovary. Classification based primarily on shape
absent - astylous | Style absent. | |
bifid | Cut or divided into two lobes or parts. | |
eccentric | Off-center style. | |
gynobasic | Attached at base of ovary in central depression; at the base of an invaginated ovary. | |
heterostylous | With styles of different sizes or lengths or shapes within a species. | |
homostylous | With styles of same sizes or lengths and shapes. | |
short | ||
stylopodic | With a stylopodium or discoid base, as in the Apiaceae. | |
trifid | Cut or divided into three lobes or parts. |