Stigma
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Title
Stigma
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Definition
The apex of the style and the place where the pollen is carried to by pollination agents. The pollen grains germinate on the stigma and grow down the style to the ovule where a sperm from a pollen grain fertilizes an egg in an ovule.
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Notes
The stigma of neotropical Lecythidaceae is often papillate (seen only under high magnification.)
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