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Stigma (botany)

Diagram showing the stigma-style-ovary system of the female reproductive organ of a plant. The stigma is fixed to the apex of the style, a narrow upward extension of the ovary.

The stigma (pl.: stigmas or stigmata)[1] is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.

  1. ^ "stigma". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2019-03-30. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Under 6. Botany: "Plural usually stigmas."

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