Tepals

Instead, like tulips and lilies, they have leaf-like structures called tepals, that act as both petal and the outermost sepal whorl. ❋ [email protected] (2010)

Are they officially are the sepals officially called tepals in these orchids? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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)

I never know what exactly are petals or sepals or tepals with Hellebores. ❋ Unknown (2009)

D. iridoides has white flowers marked with yellow and violet, with six free tepals that are not joined into a tube at their bases. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

It can be distinguished by larger flowers which have dark spots at the base of the outer tepals, and last for three days. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

The result of this manifold study has been a pretty general agreement that the structure of the order (omitting minor details) is as follows: -- A six-parted perianth in two rows, the outer three (sepals) generally regular and equal in shape; of the inner three (petals or tepals) two are regular, and one, the labellum very irregular, consisting not only of a petal, but of two abortive stamens incorporated with it. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The flower structure seemed right for iris: six tepals a handy term for flower parts that might be either petals or sepals. ❋ [email protected] (Joe Eaton (2011)

Magnolia tepals are especially strong, thick and leathery, an adaptation that enabled them to withstand the rigorous activities of beetles, one of the earliest insects essential to pollination. ❋ [email protected] (2010)

Leucojum, an old-fashioned bulb of the sort you'd see in your grandma's garden, produces white bells with pea-green dots near the tips of the petals (tepals, actually). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perianth 3-6-merous, in 1 or 2 series, herbaceous, often enlarged in fruit or inner tepals enlarged, with wings, tubercles, or spines. ❋ Mukul (2010)

The fragrant flowers are about 12 centimetres across when fully open, and they are composed of 9 to 12 tepals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe it is better to avoid using tepals because it includes the labellum too, unless we intend to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Portuguese we generally use it meaning the tepals and not including the rest of structures, i. e the column. organs would mean particularly the sexual structures here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Should I go on using sepals and petals or tepals instead of segments? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Orchids have 6 tepals, three external (the sepals), and three internal (the 2 petals and the lip, which is a modified petal itself). ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, interestingly snowdrops have no flower petals - what is regarded as the flower is actually made up of six tepals, which the plant has modified to look like petals. ❋ Unknown (2009)