FIGURE 2 in A multicarpellate fruit from Late Cretaceous sediments of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

FIGURE 2. Covidifructus multicarpellatus gen. et sp. nov. specimen No. NMP F3200, scale bars equal 300 µm in all figures, series of microCT sections of premature capsular fruit. (A) Volume rendering of fruit in lateral view; lines B-F indicate approximate levels of transverse sections shown in the following images. (B) Transverse section at the level of styles and stigmas. (C) Transverse section at the level of the symplicate zone of the gynoecium where the carpels are postgenitally united in the centre of the ovary; distalmost parts of locules and seeds are visible. (D) Transverse section at the level of the empty space (asterisk) where carpels do not meet in the centre of the ovary. (E) Transverse section at the level of the synascidiate zone of the gynoecium, i.e., below the enclosed floral apex and the empty space. (F) Transverse section through the very base of the fruit showing the basal-most parts of the locules. (G) Longitudinal median section showing empty space in the centre of the ovary (asterisk) and axile ovule/seed attachment (arrow) in the distalmost part of the ovary. (H) Longitudinal tangential section with one seed rendered and coloured in green. (I) Transverse section at the level of seed attachment in the distal part of the ovary, with one seed rendered and coloured in green.