ovary locule
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025266
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: lóculo del ovario (Spanish)
- exact: 子房室 (Japanese)
- broad: sporophyll locule
- Definition
- A locule that is a cavity in an ovary. [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- Generally contains at least one ovule. An ovary locule may be part of a single carpel, in the case of unicarpellate flowers. An ovary that is part of a syncarpous gynoecium may have multiple locules, or the anatomical spaces of multiple carpels may be fused to form a single locule.
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