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Definition of Basal placentation
1. Noun. Where one or few ovules develop at the base of a simple or compound ovary.
Generic synonyms: Placentation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basal Placentation
Literary usage of Basal placentation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... and the placenta; there conspicuously developed and completely united.
The basal placentation of ..."
2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Joseph Decaisne, Emmanuel Le Maout (1876)
"Ovary 1-celled, with free basal placentation.—Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees ;
leaves rarely opposite, ..."
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