The morphology and vascular anatomy of the gynoecium of Mangifera indica L.
Sharma M. R.
Author Affiliation: Dep. Bot., DAV Post Graduate Coll., Dehradun, India.
Recent advances in plant sciences. Session 12. Structural botany.: [Abstracts]. :109
Abstract : Anatomical studies have shown that reduction in the number of carpels from many to five, four, three, two and finally stabilization of the monocarpellary condition was followed by a corresponding reduction and suppression of number of the locules and ovules from many to one. Placentation is basically axile in the ancestral forms as well as in a few existing forms but in the majority of present-day forms placentation has changed from axile to parietal resulting in the subbasal condition which tends to be basal in the monocarpellary gynecia of M. indica.