Ovules anatropous

• Title

  Ovules anatropous

• Definition

  Referring to a curved downwardly oriented ovule in such a way that the micropyle is close to the funicular attachment.

• Notes

  In neotropical Lecythidaceae, the ovules are anatropous, bitegmic, and tenuinucellate.

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