pistil

Examples of pistillate

pistillate
In these cases, pollen was transferred from staminate flowers to pistillate stigmas with a small paint brush.
Most notably, teosinte possesses long lateral branches that are tipped by tassels (staminate inflorescences), while maize has short lateral branches tipped by ears (pistillate inflorescences).
We counted the number of staminate, pistillate and sterile flowers in nine inflorescences.
In contrast, no insects or other visitors were observed on pistillate inflorescences.
However, bee preference for pistillate or staminate flowers can only be confirmed with long-term and/or experimental studies on this system.
Inflorescences had a mean of 272 (+ 36.3) pistillate, 88 (+ 22.3) sterile and 390 (+ 41.3) staminate flowers.
Staminate and pistillate flowers are receptive at anthesis.
Fertile staminate and pistillate flowers that occur on the same inflorescence are closely juxtaposed and synchronously receptive.
Selfed pistillate flowers were then re-bagged for 10-15 d to protect from contamination.
Larger insects were thus unable to make contact with the pistillate flowers.
Pistillate inflorescences do not always mature to fruits.
The duration of pistillate flower receptivity, estimated by the transition from moist and sticky to hard and dark stigmas, was also noted.
Visits of larger bees on pistillate flowers were less frequent.
Staminate sterility is positively correlated with number of pistillate flowers.
The staminate flowers were liberating pollen, while pistillate flowers were unreceptive to pollen; (c) close-up of a receptive pistillate flower with its swollen ovary in the background.
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