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What is a corolla?

What is a corolla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
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Sandersonia aurantiaca is a liliaceous monocotyledon with a bell-shaped corolla formed from fused petals and sepals.
All three subspecies are white flowering with a tubular corolla and a long style that exserts the stigma from the corolla tube.
In the flowers, corolla, corona and anther structure are similar, but the shape of the pollen tetrads in the two genera is different.
These bees visited flowers in search of pollen, adopting a supine posture as they entered the corolla tube.
Contrast in spectral reflectance between the corona and corolla was evident only in Pachycarpus natalensis and Asclepias cucullata.
Their perigonium consists of two trimerous whorls of tepals, or conversely of a perianth comprising calyx and corolla.

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