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Examine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the staminate and pistillate flowers. Do you know any other plant that bears unisexual flowers?

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In cucurbitaceae family - flowers are unisexual rarely bisexual in Schizo pepon.
In All unisexual flowers, In Luffa cylindrica and Thladiantha-stamens with Monothecus anthers are present.
In citrullus, Legenaria, Cucumis (all unisexual) stamens are three, one with Monothecus (all unisexual) stamens are three, one with Monothecus and two with Ditheous anthers. In female flowers, stamens are represented by staminodes. In Male flowers, Gynoecium is represented by Pistiollodes.
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