gynoecium
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The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.
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Other distinct features include a gynoecium with five to 10 joined carpels, and flowers with more than three parts per whorl.
Subfamily Ceroxyloideae has small to medium-sized flowers, spirally arranged, with a gynoecium of three joined carpels.
The gynoecium consists of two carpels fused into a single, bicarpellate pistil with an inferior ovary.