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Q. Fruit of Asteraceae is

Morphology of Flowering Plants

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Cypsela is a type of achenial fruit. It is the characteristic of Family Asteraceae or Compositae (sunflower family). Cypsela is also called inferior, false or pseudocarpic achene. The thin fruit wall (developed from pericarp and thalamus) is attached to the seed at one point but the fruit develops from an inferior, unilocular and uniovuled ovary, e.g., sunflower, marigold. Some cypselas develop pappus for dispersal, e.g., Sonchus, Taraxacum (dandelion).