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BotanyNEET 2024Inflorescence, flower and floral formula

Morphology of Flowering Plants

Identify the type of flowers based on the position of calyx, corolla and androecium with respect to the ovary from the given figures (a) and (b):

Question 113 as printed in the NEET 2024 booklet

  1. A.(a) Hypogynous; (b) Epigynous
  2. B.(a) Perigynous; (b) Epigynous
  3. C.(a) Perigynous; (b) Perigynous✓
  4. D.(a) Epigynous; (b) Hypogynous

Solution

In both drawings the ovary sits at the centre of a cup-shaped thalamus with the sepals, petals and stamens arising from its rim at the same level as the ovary — the perigynous condition (half-inferior ovary), as in plum and rose. Neither shows the parts fused around the ovary (epigynous) or arising below it (hypogynous).

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