Difference between staminate and pistillate
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✔A staminate flower is a male flower, bearing only stamens. A pistillate flower is female, bearing only pistils. A monoecious plant has separate male flowers and female flowers occurring on the same plant.
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Staminate Flowers:
Consists of male reproductive structures only and is an androecious or male flower
Stamen, the male reproductive structure has two parts – filament and anther
It does not contain activated female reproductive parts
Cucumber a dioecious plant produces staminate flowers Chrysanthemum produces disc florets which are staminate flowers
Pistillate Flowers:
Consists of female reproductive structures only known as the carpels or pistils
They do not have activated stamens. But they have a swollen base due to the presence of the ovary
Carpels have three parts – style, stigma and ovary
Pistillate flowers obtain pollens from other flowers for fertilization
Example – cucumber has pistillate flowers while bearing staminate flowers separately