Q.In family Solanaceae, the gynoecium is characteristically:

In Solanaceae, the gynoecium is formed of two united carpels (bicarpellary, syncarpous), and a distinguishing feature is that the ovary is placed obliquely on the floral axis rather than straight, with a superior, bilocular ovary showing axile placentation and many ovules. Option (a) describes a monocarpellary condition with marginal placentation, characteristic of Leguminosae, not Solanaceae. Option (c), multicarpellary with parietal placentation, and option …

Recall Solanaceae's fixed gynoecium plan -- two carpels, fused, ovary oblique, axile placentation -- and eliminate options describing a different …

• Confusing Solanaceae's axile placentation with the parietal placentation of Brassicaceae. …