REPRODUCTIVE

STRUCTURES
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE
STUCTURES
• Flowers
• Sexual reproduction is the sole function of
flowers, often the showiest part of a plant.
Flowers' beauty and fragrance evolved not
to please humans but to attract pollinators
(insects or birds), which are central to the
reproductive process. Flowering plants
reproduce sexually through a process
called pollination.
 What is Pollination
Pollination is an essential part
of plant reproduction. Pollen
from a flower's anthers (the male
part of the plant) rubs or drops
onto a pollinator. The pollinator
then take this pollen to another
flower, where the pollen sticks to
the stigma (the female part). The
fertilized flower later yields fruit
and seeds.
Flower structure
Structure

As a plant's reproductive part, a

flower contains a stamen (male
flower part) or pistil (female
flower part), or both, plus
accessory parts such as sepals,
petals, and nectar glands
PISTIL
the female reproductive part of a flower. The
pistil, centrally located, typically consists of a
swollen base, the ovary, which contains the
potential seeds, or ovules; a stalk, or style, arising
from the ovary; and a pollen-receptive tip, the
stigma, variously shaped and often sticky.
 A carpel is a part of the
pistil that comprises the
style, stigma, and ovary. In
the pistil, the carpel is the
ovule bearing leaf-like part
extending out to the style.

The word pistil is derived from the latin

term pistillum, pestle. It can either be the
same as an individual carpel as it
comprises stigma, style, ovary or a carpels
fused together. This means a pistil can
The pistil is the innermost, seed-bearing,
female part of a flower. It is located generally
to the centre and consists of a swollen base
called the ovary. The pistil can also be
referred to as a collection of carpels,
which are fused together.
A carpel is a part of the pistil that
comprises the style, stigma, and
ovary. In the pistil, the carpel is the
ovule bearing leaf-like part extending
out to the style.
Pistils: Female Reproductive Organs
The pistil includes an ovary (where the
ovules are produced; ovules are the
female reproductive cells, the eggs),
and a stigma (which receives the
pollen during fertilization).
 Fertilization Pollination is often aided by insects
like bees, which fly from flower to flower; as they
visit flowers, they spread pollen and deposit it on the
stigmas. After pollen grains have landed on the
stigma, pollen tubes develop, and burrow down into
the ovary, there the pollen (sperm cell) fertilizes an
ovule (egg cell). After fertilization, the ovule develops
into a seed.
 STIGMA
The stigma is the sticky knob at
the top of the pistil. It is attached
to the long, tubelike structure called
the style. The style leads to the
ovary that contains the female egg
cells called ovules.
The Stigma
• The stigma is the top of
the female part of the
flower.
• Pollen from another flower
collects on the stigma’s
sticky surface.
• Found at the end of the pistil
The stigma receives pollen and it is on
the stigma that the pollen grain
germinates. Often sticky, the stigma is
adapted in various ways to catch and
trap pollen with various hairs, flaps, or
sculpturings.
 STYLE

This is the name for the stalk of the pistil. When pollen reaches the
stigma, it begins to grow a tube through the style called a pollen tube,
which will eventually reach the ovary. The style, therefore, acts as a buffer
against pollen contamination, since only compatible pollen is able to grow a
pollen tube
 Style

• The neck of the

pistil
 OVARY

The ovary often supports a long

style, topped by a stigma. The
mature ovary is a fruit, and the
mature ovule is a seed. The
enlarged basal portion of the
pistil where ovules are
produced.
The Ovary
pollen
• The ovary protects the
ovules.
• Pollen travels to the ovules
and fertilization takes
place.
• Now the ovules will develop
into seeds.

ovary
ovule
 Ovule
• The ovule is the organ
that forms the seeds of
flowering plants. It is
borne in the ovary of the
flower and consists of
nucellus protected by
integuments, precursors
of embryo/endosperm,
and seed coat,
respectively.
 Ovule

• The part of the

flower in which
the eggs are
produced and
seeds develop
 The nucellus (plural:
nucelli) is part of the
inner structure of the
ovule, forming a layer
of diploid
(sporophytic) cells
immediately inside
the integuments. It is
structurally and
functionally equivalent
to the
megasporangium.
the central and chief part of a plant ovule that
encloses the female gametophyte
How many ovules are present in hibiscus
flower?

The single pink flower has a normal

ovary that consists of 5 locules. There
are two ovule rows in each locule,
with each row consists of 6 ovules.
Ovary is the female reproductive part
of a flower and ovules are located
inside the ovary. Ovary after fertilization
turns into a fruit whereas ovules turn into
seeds of fruit. An ovule is a structure
found inside the ovary of plants.
Integuments are the two layers which
cover the internal structures of the ovule.
 GROUP 4

RICA MAE V. TABUENA

ANGEL BRENDA RIVERA
JESSA MAE SOLERO
JELYN SONER
WINZELL TRINIDAD