Flower morphology and anatomy of Lecythis parvifructa.

• Title

  Flower morphology and anatomy of Lecythis parvifructa.

• Authors

  Nathan P. Smith, Caroline Carollo, Scott Alan Mori

• Description

  The flowers of this species possess a truncate, puberulous, slight rugose hypanthiu; imbricate calxy-lobes; staminal ring lip; golf club shaped filaments in the outermost, anterior row of stamens of the staminal ring; a androeium with posterior and anterior extensions; vestigial stamens that are swept inward; an umbonate ovary summit; and a geniculate style.