stylulus
Noun
Meaning
stylulus (plural styluli)
(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
Noun
stylulus (plural styluli)
(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.