pistillate flower
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025599
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: female flower
- exact: carpellate flower
- broad: diclinous flower
- broad: imperfect flower
- Definition
- A flower (PO:0009046) that includes as part a single carpel (PO:0009030) or a gynoecium (PO:0009062), but the androecium (PO:0009061) is absent or has aborted during development. [source: POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- None
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