How many plants among Indigofera, Sesbania, Salvia, Allium, Aloe, mustard, groundnut, radish, gram and turnip have stamens with different lengths in their flowers?
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
Answer
(2) Four
Solution
As per NCERT, there may be a variation in the length of filaments within a flower, as in Salvia and mustard.
Salvia (Lamiaceae) is didynamous, with 2 long and 2 short stamens, while mustard, radish and turnip (Brassicaceae) are tetradynamous, with 4 long and 2 short stamens.
Indigofera, Sesbania, groundnut and gram (Fabaceae) have diadelphous stamens, and Allium and Aloe (Liliaceae) have six stamens in two whorls of equal length, so they do not count.
∴ Plants with stamens of different lengths = Salvia, mustard, radish, turnip = 4.
Answer: (2)