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Aceraceae

 8-Female flower

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This female flower of Acer platanoides, Norway maple, has 5 sepals, 5 petals, 8 staminodia, a large nectar disk, and a syncarpous gynoecium of 2 carpels.
Photo by K. R. Robertson and D. L. Nickrent of plants growing in Champaign, Illinois.
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