Tuatara: Volume 27, Issue 1, August 1984
Fig 2a. Placenta with subtending scale. — b. Placenta in part “transfused” within the subtending scale. — c. Placenta fully transfused within the subtending scale and creating the illusion of the “carpel” as a unitary “leaf carrying the ovules upon (or toward) its margins”. (From Croizat 1964b: Fig. 12)
Fig 2a. Placenta with subtending scale.
b. Placenta in part “transfused” within the subtending scale.
c. Placenta fully transfused within the subtending scale and creating the illusion of the “carpel” as a unitary “leaf carrying the ovules upon (or toward) its margins”. (From Croizat 1964b: Fig. 12).