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Definition of Free central placentation
1. Noun. Where ovules develop on a central column in a compound ovary lacking septa or with septa at base only.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Central Placentation
Literary usage of Free central placentation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"Pistil of Spergularia rubra, one of the Pink family, with free central placentation.
that in the Primrose (Fig. 160) the free central placenta has been ..."
2. Analytical Class-book of Botany: Designed for Academies and Private Students by Frances Harriet Green, Joseph W. Congdon (1857)
"This is called a free central placentation, as in fig. 3. Thus there are three
modes of deposition in the ovules—Axillary, Parietal, and Free Central ..."
3. The Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1853)
"It must be admitted that the monstrosities which occur in Primula, and some other
plants with free central placentation, favor this new view. ..."
4. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"The same excellent observer has recorded the occurrence of free central placentation
in malformed flowers of Trifolium repens.1 In malformed flowers of ..."
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