NOUN
- an undifferentiated part of a perianth that cannot be distinguished as a sepal or a petal (as in lilies and tulips)
How To Use tepal In A Sentence
- The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- However, these authors did not observe the initiation of tepals and stamens on the same whorl on individual flowers.
- The campanulate flowers have four to six tepals.
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- Their perigonium consists of two trimerous whorls of tepals, or conversely of a perianth comprising calyx and corolla.
- The six subequal tepals are arranged in two whorls and horizontally spread.
- The trilobed to laciniate tepals resemble those of certain species of Chorizanthe.
- Curved lines show parastichies between stamens and last-formed tepals.
- The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Hun ahau; lahunkal hab cu tepal chicħen Ytza, ca paxi ca binob t cahtal chakanputun ti yanhi yotochob ahYtzaob kuyan uinicobi. The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1