COMPLETE & INCOMPLETE FLOWER

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COMPLETE AND INCOMPLETE FLOWER

Complete flower:
•Contains 4 basic organs-sepals, petals, stamens and pistils
Incomplete flower:
•Lacks one or more of these structures
Perfect flower:
•Have both male and female reproductive structures
Imperfect flower:
•Have either male or female reproductive structures

SYMMETRY OF FLOWER

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Actinomorphic (regular)

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Flowers that are radially symmetrical so that they are able to be able to bisected into similar halves in more than one vertical plane, forming mirror images.

Zygomorphic (Irregular)

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Flowers that are bilaterally symmetrical so that they are able to be bisected into similar halves in only one plane, forming mirror images.