Pistil

Question 1

Pistal

Answer 1

Female
Stigma/vulva
Style/vagina
Ovary/ womb
Ovule/egg (becomes seed/embryo)

Question 2

Stigma

Answer 2

Vulva
Top of the pistil

Question 3

Style

Answer 3

Vagina of Pistil
Long part of pistal between the stigma and ovary

Question 4

Ovary

Answer 4

Womb of the Pistil
Below the style
Where the ovule/egg reside and becomes the seed

Question 5

Simple pistil

Answer 5

Single- celled ovary called a carpel

Question 6

Carpel

Answer 6

Single- celled ovary

Tip: think “car port” -like a docking station where the “car” (ovules) are attached

Question 7

Apocarpous

Answer 7

Numerous simple pistil in a cone form.

Common to primitive plants like buttercup

Question 8

Syncarpous

Answer 8

Several united carpel

Evolution of apocarpous pistil- several carpel fuse together forming a “compound pistil”

**most plants today are syncarpous

Question 9

Bicarpellate

Answer 9

Compound pistil consisting of two carpels

Question 10

Tricarpellate

Answer 10

Compound pistil consisting of three carpels

Question 11

Locule

Answer 11

Single chamber of a compound pistil.

A syncarpous whose compartment walls have been eliminated.

Question 12

Compound pistil

Answer 12

A syncarpous pistel where the walls partitioning the carpels has fused and been eliminated, opening up to one chamber / locule.