Technical Terms Used to Describe The Flower

❍ Monoecious : Male and female flowers are found in same plants
❍ Dioecious : Male flowers are borne on male plant and female flowers on female plant
❍ Pistillate flower : Flowers having only female reproductive organ
❍ Staminate Flower : Flowers having only male reproductive organ
❍ Unisexual Flower : Flower having only one functional sex of the reproductive organ ( Either male or female sex organ)
❍ Bisexual Flower : Flower having both male and female functional sex organs
❍ Pedicellate Flower : Flowers having a pedicel/Stalk
❍ Sessile Flower : Flowers without a pedicel/stalk
❍ Bracteate Flower : Flowers having a bract (a small leaf like structure subtending a flower )
❍ Ebracteate : Flowers without a bract
❍ Bracteolate Flower : Flowers having bracteoles (Small leaf like structures on the flower stalk)
❍ Ebracteolate flower : Flowers without bracteoles
❍ Homochlamydeous flower : Flowers in which the perianth is not differentiated into calyx and coroll
❍ Heterochlamydeous flower : Flowers inwhich the perianth is differentiated intocalyx and corolla.
❍ Complete flower: Flowers having all the four whorls Calyx, Corolla, Androecium and Gynoecium.
❍ Incomplete flower: Flowers lacking one of the four whorls Calyx, Corolla, Androecium and Gynoecium.
❍ Epigynous flower: Flowers in which the floral parts are arising above the level of the ovary.
❍ Hypogynous flower: Flowers in which the floral parts are arising below the level of the ovary.
❍ Perigynous flower: Flowers in which the floral parts are arising from the rim of the hypanthial cup of the ovary.
❍ Polysepalous : The sepals are free from each other.
❍ Gamosepalous: The sepals are fused with each other.
❍ Polypetalous: The petals are free from each other.
❍ Gamopetalous: The petals are fused with each other.

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