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In this case a syncarpous fruit has a tendency to become apocarpous.

The pistil is apocarpous, consisting of several distinct carpels, each with ovary, style and stigma.

It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous.

In the former case they are either apocarpous, of one mature carpel or of several separate free carpels; or syncarpous, of several carpels, more or less completely united.

When the pistil consists of several separate carpels, or is apocarpous, there are generally separate placentas at each of their margins.