Dry indehiscent single-seeded fruit formed from bicarpellary syncarpous inferior ovary is
Options
(a) Caryopsis
(b) Cypsela
(c) Berry
(d) Cremocarp
Correct Answer:
Cypsela
Explanation:
Dry indehiscent single-seeded fruit formed from bicarpellary syncarpous inferior ovary is cypsela. Cypsela is also called inferior, false or pseudocarpic achene, the thin furit wall (developed from peri carp and thalamus) is attached to the seed at one point but the furits at develops from an inferior, unilocular and univovuled ovary, e.g., sunflower, marigold. Some cypsela develops pappus for dispersal e.g., Soncus, Taraxacum.