31. Thin stems end in pistillate flowers. 32. The pistillate flowers are also yellow with three cupped sepals and three longer, imbricate petals. 33. The plant is generally pistillate spike. 34. Staminate plants have up to 20 flowers per spikelet, pistillate plants only 5-9. 35. The pistillate have light green lanceolate scales and red styles, and appear in clusters long. 36. This plant is a perennial herb or small pistillate ray florets and a few disc florets. 37. Pistillate ( female ) flowers are grouped together into a head of 10-15 flowers.38. Lower spikelets generally have both pistillate and staminate flowers, while uppermost spikelets are staminate only. 39. Unlike most cultivated grapevines, many muscadine cultivars are pistillate , requiring a pollenizer to set fruit. 40. This species is pistillate flowers are the rounded, lobed immature fruits surrounded by tiny pointed sepals.
