campylotropous

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cam·py·lot·ro·pous

(kăm′pə-lŏt′rə-pəs)

adj. Botany

Having an ovule partially inverted and curved such that the micropyle nearly meets the funiculus.

[Greek kampulos, curved + -tropous.]

campylotropous

(ˌkæmpɪˈlɒtrəpəs)

adj

(of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch

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Adj.

campylotropous - (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk

plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

orthotropous - (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex

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Members of the Canellaceae form a monophyletic group, which share several synapomorphies such as monadelphous stamens, parietal placentation, and campylotropous ovules (Salazar, 2006).

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Ovary (2-)4-5(-14) carpellate, superior to inferior, with usually axile to intruded parietal placentation, rarely apical or basal; ovules 1 to many per carpel, anatropous to nearly campylotropous, unitegmic, tenuinucellate, the embryo sac usually of the Polygonum type; style short to long, hollow, sometimes expanded apically; stigma truncate to capitate or slightly to strongly lobed, sometimes cup shaped, funnel shaped, or flabellate to pinnatifid.

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Such varying differentiation of different parts of the ovule accounts for the occasional confusion of anatropous and campylotropous ovules.