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What does carpellate mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having functional carpels.
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Begonia piring has paired carpellate flowers with 5 tepals borne beneath a larger staminate inflorescence and hence is likely affiliated with Begonia sect.
The carpellate flower is composed of a single carpel with an elongated, grooved style.
Begonia sabahensis and B. calcarea are closely allied species with orange and yellow flowers respectively, borne on separate umbellate staminate and unifloral carpellate inflorescences.
Aging flowers along the indeterminate racemes shift from being staminate to carpellate.

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