How To Use Apocarpous In A Sentence
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Early angiosperm fruits were apocarpous, with several free carpels.
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In a sense, these taxa have gynoecia that are effectively apocarpous.
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Flowers are apocarpous, with the stigmas borne at the end of a long style.
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Flowers are apocarpous, with up to five carpels (usually two to three).
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The first bifurcation is shortly above the transition from the syncarpous to the apocarpous zone, the second bifurcation is somewhat higher up.
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It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous.
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