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sepal

[see-puhl] / ˈsi pəl /
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calyx
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By mutating genes that control polyploidy in the mustardlike plant Arabidopsis thaliana, she and her team discovered that if the sepal had too few polyploid cells, it was stiff and upright and blooming was impeded.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

Goethe recognized that all the parts of a flower, from pistil to sepal, are modified leaves.

From Nature • Aug. 5, 2019

Calyx of a single sepal, embracing the ovary.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Edithae.—Rosy white of sepal and petal, bordered with yellow and barred with chestnut; lip pale yellow, much deeper at the base, with chestnut spots in the centre.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

Galea, a helmet-shaped body, as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 87.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa




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