The anatropous ovule arises from the placenta as a straight or only slightly curved cellular process, and as it grows, gradually becomes inverted, curving from the point of origin of the integuments (cf.
The ridge or adnate funicle which in an anatropous ovule connects the two ends.
Ovary 2--4-celled, with an erect anatropous ovule in each cell.
Ovary more or less 2--7-celled, with 1 or 2 pendulous anatropous ovules in each cell; but all the cells and ovules except one disappearing in the fruit.
Fruit indehiscent, 1--4-celled, with a single anatropous seed suspended from the summit of each cell.
Berry (often edible) many-seeded; the anatropous albuminous seeds invested by a pulpy covering.
Ovary 2-celled, with a single anatropous ovule pendulous in each cell; style prolonged and curved; stigma various.
No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere.
Anatropous ovule of a Violet, the parts lettered as in the last.
Section of seed of Violet; anatropous with straight axile embryo in the albumen.
The adnate cord or ridge connecting the hilum with the chalaza in an anatropous ovule.
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