🌸 Case-Based Questions: Flower Structure

Case 1: Hibiscus Flower
A student observes a hibiscus flower with large colored petals and numerous stamens fused into a tube surrounding the style.
1. The stamens in hibiscus show
✅ Answer: Monadelphous
📘 Explanation: Filaments fuse forming a staminal tube.
2. Bright petals primarily help in
✅ Answer: Attracting pollinators
Case 2: Pea Flower
A pea flower shows one large standard petal, two wings, and two fused keel petals.
3. Corolla type is
✅ Answer: Papilionaceous
4. Floral symmetry is
✅ Answer: Zygomorphic
Case 3: Wind Pollinated Flower
A grass flower lacks petals and has feathery stigma.
5. Feathery stigma helps in
✅ Answer: Trapping pollen
6. Petals are absent because
✅ Answer: No need to attract pollinators
Case 4: Mustard Flower
7. Mustard ovary position is
✅ Answer: Superior
8. Placentation type is
✅ Answer: Parietal
Case 5: Guava Flower
9. Ovary position is
✅ Answer: Inferior
10. Floral condition is
✅ Answer: Epigynous
Case 6: Lily Ovary
11. Placentation is
✅ Answer: Axile
12. Ovary is
✅ Answer: Multilocular
Case 7: Rose Flower
13. Petals are
✅ Answer: Polypetalous
14. Sepals mainly function in
✅ Answer: Protection
Case 8: Fusion of Carpels
15. Fused carpels condition is
✅ Answer: Syncarpous
16. Free carpels condition is
✅ Answer: Apocarpous