Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Gynobasic style and caducous petals of Rhabdodendron amazonicum. Photo by S. A. Mori.

An ovary with a gynobasic style. Drawing by B. Angell.

Title: Four nutlets and gynobasic style. Drawing by B. Angell.

Description: Four nutlets and gynobasic style based on common features of Boraginaceae. Note that the style arises from the base of the ovary in the middle of the carpels when in flower and the nutlets when in fruit.

Term:

Gynobasic style

Definition:

Referring to a style arising from the base of the ovary. Gynobasic styles are of two types: 1) the style is inserted laterally at the base of a syncarpous ovary as in Chrysobalanaceae and Rhabdodendraceae 2) the style arises from the center of an apocarpous ovary as in many species of Lamiaceae.