Perianth

Revision as of 05:10, 26 November 2006 by Numbo3 (Talk | contribs)

(diff) ← Older revision | Current revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Look up perianth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The term perianth has two similar but separate meanings in botany:

In flowering plants, the perianth is the outer, sterile whorls of a flower (see sepal, petal, and tepal).
In a liverwort, perianth is the sterile tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure (or developing sporophyte).ca:Periant