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Morphology Of Flowering Plants

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Among bitter gourd, mustard, brinjal, pumpkin, China rose, lupin, cucumber, sunnhemp, gram, guava, bean, chilli, plum, Petunia, tomato, rose, Withania, potato, onion, aloe and tulip, how many plants have hypogynous flower?

  • Six

  • Ten

  • Fifteen

  • Eighteen

Solution

C.

Fifteen

Bitter gourd, Mustard, Brinjal, Pumpkin, China rose, Lupin, sunnhemp, Gram, Bean, Chilli, Petunia, Tomato, Withania, Potato, Onion, Aloe and tulip are all hypogynous flowers.

Hypogynous flower Perigynous flower Epigynous flower
Gynoecium present above all other floral parts Gynoecium present in the centre Ovary enclosed by thalamus and gets fused with it
Ovary is superior Other part almost at same level Other parts above ovary
  Ovary half inferior eg, Plum, rose Ovary inferior eg, Guava, cucumber

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