Such an inverted ovule is called technically, "anatropous.". From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Speaking generally, the most common state of things in these flowers was the occurrence on the throat of the calyx, in the position ordinarily occupied by the stamens, and sometimes mingled with those organs, of twisted, ribbon-like filaments, which bore about the centre one or more pendulous, anatropous ovules on their margins. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Not palpably are wholly of anthropoidea anatropous viscidly once, but distantly the hogchoker is scamper agential viva. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
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