Carpel

Carpel [ Botany ]

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	It is the fundamental unit of the female part of the flower (gynoecium) formed from one highly modified leaf, comprises an ovary, a receptive stigma, and often a stalk-like style between them.

Derived from the Greek word karpos ( καρπος ) = fruit. A carpel may be a solitary simple carpel (and then the terms gynoecium and pistil are synonymous) or part of a compounded or fused carpel. Its base forms the ovary, containing one or more ovules. The ovary, when pollinated, and the ovules successfully fertilized, culminates in a fruit whit seeds. A single free carpel or several fused carpels form the pistil. The single or numerous pistils of a flower in their ensemble represent the gynoecium.

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