anthers
Examples
Some flowers are functionally staminate (where a pistil may be present but has no ovules capable of being fertilized) while others are functionally pistillate (where stamens are present but their anthers do not produce viable pollen).
The male parts of the flower are the stamens : these consist of long filaments arranged between the pistil and the petals that produce pollen in anthers at their tips.
The two flower morphs are however difficult to observe as they are rather morphologically similar; male flowers have a pistillode with the ovaries empty and female flowers have empty, smaller anthers (staminodes).
The filaments are fused to the corolla, while the anthers are generally connate (syngenesious anthers), thus forming a sort of tube around the style (theca).
Each flower has six anthers, usually a bilobed stigma, and one ovule in each of its two sections (locules).
The anthers are typically two-lobed and attach to the filament either at the base or middle.sfn The hypanthium helps in many ways with the reproduction and cross pollination pathways of most plants.