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.