Hypantium is also called a
floral
cup or floral tube. It is a flat, cuplike, or
tubular structure on which are included the sepals,
petals, and
stamens - often above the top of the
ovary - with the fused bases of lower
portions of stamens and perianth
parts inserted on the rim or on a modified
receptacle (contain
stemtissue from
the receptacle). ( e.g. the flower and fruit of
Cactaceae (false
berry) or the
fruit of the apple (pome) where
the pulp we eat is the thickened, fleshy hypanthium fused with the
inner ovary wall)
