{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12"],"submitter":["Koblova SD"],"funding":["Russian Science Support Foundation"],"pubmed_abstract":["The family Rapateaceae represents an early-divergent lineage of Poales with biotically pollinated showy flowers. We investigate developmental morphology and anatomy in all three subfamilies and five tribes of Rapateaceae to distinguish between contrasting hypotheses on spikelet morphology and to address questions on the presence of nectaries and gynoecium structure. We support an interpretation of the partial inflorescence (commonly termed spikelet), as a uniaxial system composed of a terminal flower and numerous empty phyllomes. A terminal flower in an inflorescence unit is an autapomorphic feature of Rapateaceae. The gynoecium consists of synascidiate, symplicate, and usually asymplicate zones, with gynoecium formation encompassing congenital and often also postgenital fusions between ca"],"journal":["Frontiers in plant science"],"pagination":["813915"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8829430"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Flower and Spikelet Construction in Rapateaceae (Poales)."],"pmcid":["PMC8829430"],"pubmed_authors":["Stevenson DW","Rudall PJ","Koblova SD","Remizowa MV","Sokoloff DD"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Flower and Spikelet Construction in Rapateaceae (Poales).","description":"The family Rapateaceae represents an early-divergent lineage of Poales with biotically pollinated showy flowers. We investigate developmental morphology and anatomy in all three subfamilies and five tribes of Rapateaceae to distinguish between contrasting hypotheses on spikelet morphology and to address questions on the presence of nectaries and gynoecium structure. We support an interpretation of the partial inflorescence (commonly termed spikelet), as a uniaxial system composed of a terminal flower and numerous empty phyllomes. A terminal flower in an inflorescence unit is an autapomorphic feature of Rapateaceae. The gynoecium consists of synascidiate, symplicate, and usually asymplicate zones, with gynoecium formation encompassing congenital and often also postgenital fusions between ca","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021","modification":"2025-04-18T14:02:41.104Z","creation":"2025-04-06T23:57:51.927Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8829430","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35154210"],"doi":["10.3389/fpls.2021.813915"]}}