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| Term | Definition | |
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| Receptive stigma | The time when pollen grains placed on the stigma by a pollinator are able to germinate and, thus, the nuclei they contain can potentially fertilize the egg which then has the chance to grow into an embryo, then become a seedling, and finally a reproductive plant itself. |  |
| Stigma | 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. |  |
| Stigma | The part of the gynoecium receptive to pollen usually located at the summit of the style. |  |
| Stigma convoluted | A stigma that appears to coiled or twisted. |  |
| Stigma lined | Lines found on the stigmas of at least some species of |
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| Stigma lobed | A stigma divided into separate parts. |  |
| Stigma punctiform | A stigma that is neither lobed or displays stigmatic lines. | |
| Stigma surface lepidote | A stigma with minute scales over its surface. | |
| Stigma surface pubescent | A stigma with septate trichomes covering what appears to be the receptive part of the stigma. |  |