Ovary superior

Ovary superior flowers perfect, polygamous, or unisexual calyx and corolla usually present.Order Sapindales... 

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. 

Ovary superior flowers in heads or seeds with embryos tega. 

Inflorescence subtended by a spathaceous bract or with spathaceous bracts flowers small, inconspicuous ovary superior, usually syncarpous. 

Ovary Superior Perianth parts with their origin below the ovary perianth hypogynous. 

Flowers Bisexual or unisexual Small Regular or irregular Three to five petals Ovary superior, usually syncarpous... 

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. 

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... 

Leaves plicate in the bud ovary completely superior usually syncarpous. 

Dopamine can thus be added to the list of hormones and neurotransmitters which can stimulate or inhibit cyclic AMP formation, depending upon their tissue of action. Thus, while dopamine stimulates cyclic AMP formation in parathyroid cells, superior cervical ganglia, retina and striatal tissue (27, 58-61), it inhibits the accumulation of the cyclic nucleotide in cells of the intermediate and anterior lobes of the pituitary gland. Opposite effects on the cyclic AMP system are also found with LHRH which stimulates and inhibits cyclic AMP levels in the anterior pituitary gland (62) and ovary (63), respectively. Similarly, alpha-adrenergic agents show opposite effects on cyclic AMP formation in brain (64) and platelets (65). PGE, stimulates cyclic AMP formation in the anterior pituitary gland (62) while it inhibits the same parameter in fat cells (66). 

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. 

An Uva is-a berry from a superior ovary. Examples Belladonna, Egg-plant, Tomato, Fig. 102 (i). 

The Hesperidium is a large thick-skinned succulent fruit with seeds embedded in the pulp but from a superior ovary. Examples Orange, Grape-fruit, Lemon, etc. In each of these there is to be noted a glandular leathery epicarp, a sub-leathery mesocarp and an endocarp in the form of separate carpels. From the endocarp hairs grow inward into the carpellary cavities and become filled with succulence. The seeds lie amid the hair cells. Fig. 102 (3). 

II. Order Principles.—Palmew or Palm Family.—Tropical or subtropical shrubs, rarely trees, having unbranched trunks which are terminated by a crown of leaves, in the axils of which the flowers are produced. The leaves are well developed with pinnate or palmate blades and a fibrous sheathed clasping petiole. The flowers are small, of one or two sexes, and crowded on a spike or spadix, which is subtended by a large bract, or spathe which may become woody, as in the Cocoanut Palm. The perianth consists of 6 parts in 2 whorls (3 sepals and 3 petals) or it may be inconspicuous or absent. The stamens are 6 in number, rarely 3, inserted below the ovary. The ovary is superior, of 3 cells, with central placenta. The fruit is either a nut, with leathery epicarp, fibrous or cellular mesocarp and thin membranous endocarp, or a drupe (Cocoanut) with leathery epicarp, broadly fibrous mesocarp and stony endocarp, or a berry as in the Date Palm, Phoenix, with membranous epicarp, succulent mesocarp and soft succulent endocarp. The seeds are albuminous with the reserve food frequently in the form of hard cellulose (ivory-nut-palm). 

Superior ovary free from all floral parts, except at the very... 

Achene or Caryopsist derived from a superior, 1-locular ovary,... 

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