peculiarity of ovulate strobilus of cycas.
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- These are not found in cones.
- These are species specific.
- It prduces many sessile and largest ovules in plant kingdom.
- Produced in axil of filiage leaf
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In Cycas, the true female cone or ovulate strobilus is absent instead megasporophylls are present which are loosely attached to the stem and they appear like a rosette.
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- Cycas is a dioecious gymnosperm. It exhibits distinct male and female cones that are borne on separate sporophytes.
- In Cycas the true as well as compact female cone or ovulate strobilus is absent.
- Instead of the male cone, there are megasporophylls. Each megasporophyll is a modified foliage leaf.
- Each megasporophyll bears a proximal petiole, an ovule in the middle and an upper pinnately dissected region.
- The middle region bears 2-12 sessile and rounded ovules.
- The ovules in Cycas are orthotropous, sessile, unitegmic and have short stalk.
- The Cycas ovule is the largest in the entire plant kingdom.
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