Ovary inferior

Petals commonly present flowers usually not in aments or ament-like clusters, but if in aments or ament-like clusters then the ovary inferior and one-celled and the plant bearing pinnately compound leaves hypanthium mostly prominent. 

Ovary inferior flowers unisexual, the male often in catkin-like spikes calyx small or absent petals absent—.Order Juglandales... 

Placentae axile or apical, rarely basal or parietal ovary inferior stamens usually many and often grouped... 

Ovary inferior, or if superior or semi-inferior flowers not in heads and seeds without embryostega. 

Stamens six inner perianth actinomorphic bracts often colored ovary inferior to superior.1.Order Bromeliales... 

Stamens three ovary inferior bracts membranaceous inner perianth actinomorphic or zygomorphic.Order Iridales... 

Ovary Inferior Perianth parts originating from the top of the ovary perianth epigynous. 

Other distinguishing features Ovary inferior. Stamens inserted below rim of hypanthium, alternating with petals. 

Carpels superior, free or only slightly united at the base, or gynoecium reduced to one carpel with one stigma, or if syncarpous then small herbs with spikelike racemes of small ebracteate flowers, or aquatics with inferior unisexual flowers with ovules spread all over the inner surface of the ovary. 

Perianth of calyx and corolla, the former often green and the latter usually petaloid ovaries superior, semi-inferior, or inferior functional stamens six, five, or one, never three, and if one then not on a column if the ovary is superior then the perianth parts never united never with branches modified into dadodes bearing flowers nor herbs or woody climbers with superior one-celled ovary and six stamens. 

Not inferior-fruited plants with twisted ovary and very small seeds. 

If stamens three then not with an inferior ovary. 

Rootstalks with fibrous or tuberous roots stem leafy, erect or climbing ovary usually inferior.Order Alstroemeriales... 

Leafy-stemmed herbs or climbers from rhizomes or tubers ovary usually inferior reticulate... 

Inferior fruited plants with spirally twisted ovary and numerous seeds without endosperm inner perianth usually zygomorphic often with pollen agglutinated into masses stamens 5, 2, or 1 with at least some of... 

The calyx usually remains after the corolla and stamens have fallen, sometimes even until the fruit matures— in either case it is said to be persistent. If it falls with the corolla and stamens, it is deciduous, and if when the flower opens, caducous, as in the Poppy and May-apple. It often more or less envelops the ovary or base of the pistil, and it is important, in plant analysis, to note the presence or absence of such a condition, which is indicated in a description by the terms inferior, or non-adherent (hypogynous), when free from the ovary and inserted upon the receptacle beneath it (the most simple and primitive position) half-superior, or half-adherent (peri-gynous), when it partially envelops the ovary, as in the Cherry superior or adherent (epigynous), when it completely envelops it, as in the Colocynth, etc. 

A Bacca is a berry from an inferior ovary. Examples Gooseberry, Honeysuckle, Currant. 

The Pepo or Gourd Fruit is a baccate fruit of large size which has developed from an inferior ovary. It is fleshy internally and has a tough or very hard rind. Examples Fruits of the Cucurbitacem and the Banana, Fig. 102 (2). 

Cypselat as an achene, but derived from an inferior ovary (as in Composites). 

First question The inferior ovary is an eansntial character state for Rubiaceae. Why did the taxonomists place Gaertnera in the Rubiaceae One can place it in Loganiaceae. Thera, it does not disturb a comparable monothetic sot of the Loganiaceae, and Rubiaceae gets a character that is at least true for all RubiaceaeI... 

Notwithstanding these broad similarities, flowers of Hernandiaceae differ from the fossil flower in having an inferior ovary. However, an inferior ovary is also present in many genera of Lauraceae that diverge at an early stage from the main line of diversification in the family. For example an inferior ovary is found in Hypodaphnis, which is the sister to all other genera and mayindicate that an inferior... 

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