Descrine the Floral characters of Allium cepa with a neat floral diagram.

Explanation

(b) Floral Characters of Allium cepa :
1. Habit : Perennial herb with bulb.
2. Root : Fibrous adventitious root system
3. Stem : Underground bulb
4. Leaf : A cluster of radical leaves emerges from the underground bulb, cylindrical and fleshy having sheathy leaf bases with parallel venation.
5. Inflorescence : Scapigerous i.e. the inflorescence axis (peduncle) arising from the ground bearing a cluster of flowers at its apex. Pedicels are of equal length, arising from the apex of the peduncle which brings all flowers at the same level.
6. Flower : Small, white, bracteate, bracteolate, pedicellate, complete, trimerous, actinomorphic and hypogynous. Flowers are protandrous.
7. Perianth : Tepals 6, white, arranged in two whorls of three each, syntepalous showing valvate aestivation.
8. Androecium: Stamens 6, arranged in two whorls of three each, epitepalous, apostamenous/free and opposite to tepals. Anthers dithecous, basifixed, introse and dehiscing longitudinally.
9. Gynoecium : Tricarpellary and syncarpous. Ovary superior, trilocular with two ovules in each locule on axile placentation. Style simple, slender with simple stigma.
10. Fruit : A loculicidal capsule.
11.Seed: Endospermous
12. Floral Formula :