Where Is Zygomorphic Found?

In Lecythidaceae, used to describe the symmetry of flowers. Zygomorphic flowers are only found in the Neotropics. Species of Bertholletia, Cariniana, Corythophora, Couratari, Couroupita, Eschweilera, and Lecythis have zygomorphic flowers.

What is Zygomorphic flower in plants?

of a flower. : having floral parts unequal in size or form so that the flower is capable of division into essentially symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis.

Which flower is known as Zygomorphic flower?

plant anatomy. Zygomorphy, or bilateral symmetry, of the viola (Viola), which produces a delicate five-petaled flower with two dissimilar pairs.

James H. Sterling

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