Perianth
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The term perianth has two similar but separate meanings in botany:

• In flowering plants, the perianth is the outer, sterile whorls of a flower (see sepal, petal, and tepal).
• In a liverwort, perianth is the sterile tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure (or developing sporophyte).