woofie said:So, what differentiates a ray flower from a petal?
Leftwood said:---- "Tepal" is a term used to encompass both petals and sepals, when the flower does not have a strong differentiation between the calyx and the corolla.
---- The term "ray flower" designates a type of individual flower that would include all parts that might be present: sepals, petals, ovaries, stamens, etc. Tepals, if they were present, would only be part of the ray flower.
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