Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Title: Parts of an ovule. Drawing by C.-H. Tsou.

Description: The funicle, outer and inner integulments, and the micropyle. In this drawing, the micropyle is formed by the inner integument as is the case for all Lecythidaceae that have been studied (Tsou, 1994)..

Term:

Ovules bitegmic

Definition:

An ovule with two integuments.

Notes:

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