Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.
The utricle enclosing the ovary or achene in the genus Carex. Perigynous. Borne on th perianth, around the ovary.
Urn-shaped or sac-like prophyll surrounding the carpellate flower of some Cyperaceae, e.g., Carex.
n. (Gr. peri, around; gyne, female) fruit investing utricle of the sedges, Carex.
Sac-like structure enclosing the fruit in species of the cyperus family (Cyperaceae). Plural = perigynia.
a flask-like papery structure that surrounds the ovary in Carex (plural, perigynia).
A sac-like structure enclosing the pistil and, at maturity, the achene in Carex.
A sac enveloping a fruit in Carex spp. (sedges).
Sac-like bract subtending the pistillate flower, as in Carex.
A special bract which encloses the achene of Carex species.
