Sepals in a sentence

The individual members of these surrounding structures are known as sepals and petals (or tepals in flowers such as Magnolia where sepals and petals are not distinguishable from each other).

For most flowers, sepals are the green protective part that covers the flower bud before they bloom.

Individual plants bear either male (pollen-producing) or female (seed-producing) flowers which have no sepals or petals and are borne in large numbers on catkins.

Their have three upright petals, the "standards", and three hanging sepals, the "falls".

They appear to have four white petals that are actually sepals — not petals.

Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four).

Each flower is convert diameter with six tepals (three outer sepals, three inner petals, with similar appearance to each other).

Flowers lack a corolla and in some, the sepals are petal-like and colorful.

In other cases, the sepals, petals and/or stamens and style of the flower fall off.

Laelia cultivar shows the normal form of sepals.

Navioideae is split from Pitcairnioideae based on its cochlear sepals and chloroplast DNA. citation Puyoideae has been re-classified multiple times and its monophyly remains controversial according to analyses of chloroplast DNA.

The calyx has four or five sepals with basally fused lobes.

The flower has three green or reddish sepals and usually three petals in shades of red, purple, pink, white, yellow, or green.

The flowers of pawpaws are produced singly or in clusters of up to eight together; they are large, 4 6 cm across, perfect, with six sepals and petals (three large outer petals, three smaller inner petals).

The flowers of the Rosaceae family always have some type of hypanthium or at least a floral cup from which the sepals, petals and stamens all arise.

The inflorescence is a solitary, showy flower with indistinguishable petals and sepals.

The rims around the outside of the hypanthium contain the calyx lobes or free sepals, petals and either the stamen or multiple stamen that are attached at one or two points.

These organs are arranged in a series of whorls: four sepals on the outer whorl, followed by four petals inside this, six stamens, and a central carpel region.

The three 0.8 to 1.2 cm long sepals are fused, white, have fluffy hairs and the three calyx teeth are unequal.

They are distinguishable by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood.