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What does perigynous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having the stamens, petals or sepals situated around the ovary (especially, on the rim of the receptacle of a superior ovary).
  2. (botany) Having a hypanthium.
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Flower of a buckthorn showing a conspicuous perigynous disk.
Also, instead of a perigynous disk, there are usually little scales on the receptacle, one behind each carpel.
These latter were classified according to whether the parts of the flower were hypogenous, perigynous, or epigynous.
There is a vestigial non-functional perigynous disc and nectar is secreted by glandular trichomes distributed along the internal surface of the corolla.

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