In botany, capitate stigma refers to a stigma with a rounded head and is head-shaped or assembled in a head as a compact terminal cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers.
The stigma, found in the gynoecium of a flower, is the receptive tip of a carpel or multiple fused carpels. The stigma, style, and ovary collectively make up the pistil, a component of a plant’s gynoecium, or female reproductive organ. This structure is referred to as the stigma-style-ovary system.
The stigma is frequently divided into lobes, such as trifid (three-lobed), and may have a capitate (pin-head) appearance or grow into a point (punctiform). Capitate, simple, and trifid are examples of the stigma’s many possible shapes. Examples include Citrus, Hibiscus.
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