Carpels

The macrosporangia (ovules) are borne on similar leaves, known as carpels, and, like the pollen sacs, borne in pairs, but on the upper side of the sporophyll instead of the lower. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

Again, the increased number of carpels which is sometimes met with in such flowers, as _Magnolia_ or _Delphinium_, where the ovaries are arranged in spiral series, is not strictly referable to the present category. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It had no sexual organs, no stamens and no carpels, only petals, so could multiply by vegetative reproduction alone. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Plants adapted to outcross or cross-pollinise have taller stamens than carpels to better spread pollen to other flowers. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)

The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Abortive stamens, rudimentary floral envelopes and undeveloped carpels, are of the most frequent occurrence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

From the base to the apex five very faint lines may be traced, over which the spines arch a little; these are the sutures of the carpels, and show where the fruit may be divided with a heavy knife and a strong hand. ❋ Unknown (2004)

MALVA OVATA (Cav.), or scarcely differing from that species, except in the rather soft and short hairs to the calyx (not long and rigid): the two ends of the curved carpels are equal or blunt; but in M. OVATA the upper one is longer and attenuated into a short beak. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I also met with a tree about twenty feet high belonging to the natural order DILLENIACEAE, with large spreading branches, producing at the axilla of the leaves from three to five large yellow flowers, with a row of red appendages surrounding the carpels. ❋ Unknown (2003)

FRUIT: Divided into finger-like carpels, each to 5 cm long, green, ripening to bright yellow to orange-red. ❋ Unknown (1999)

FRUIT: Divided into several warted greenish brown round or ovoid carpels, yellow when ripe. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Capsule A dry dehiscent fruit, composed of two or more united carpels. ❋ Unknown (1999)

· U. lucida Benth.ssp. lucida (Swahili: mganda-simba, Boni: halas, Giriama: mudzaladowe) has fruit with rusty brown carpels constricted between the seeds. ❋ Unknown (1999)

FRUIT: To 5 cm in diameter, oval or conical, formed from several carpels fusing together. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Oliv., a coastal species (from Kenya to Mozambique) with oblong fruit carpels. ❋ Unknown (1999)

By some prodigy of good luck he caught it by its downy neck; but the carpels of its wings were as hard as any man's knuckles, and were driven by muscles more powerful than the strongest's. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1993)

It will be remembered, also, how, in certain natural orders, under ordinary circumstances, considerable diversity in placentation exists, according as the margins of the carpels are merely valvate or are infolded so as to reach the centre. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)