Cannaceae

seed

Fruit dehiscentdehiscent:
(v. dehisce) splitting open at maturity to release contents (of a fruit)
capsulecapsule:
a dry, dehiscent fruit formed by two or more carpels
, loculicidalloculicidal:
type of capsular dehiscence, opening longitudinally through the locules (compare septicidal)
, 15–100 mm long, globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to ellipsoidellipsoid:
3D shape—elliptic
, angledangled:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles  
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, crowned by persistent tepalstepals:
a member of the perianth, when it cannot be differentiated into a calyx and corolla
, few to many seeded. Pericarppericarp:
fruit wall or fruit coat
brown, green, brown, white, firmfirm:
texture—yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption
, glabrousglabrous:
without hairs
, with large, soft, conicalconical:
3D shape—cone-shaped, with the point of attachment at the broad end
warts.

Seed globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
, ovoidovoid:
3D shape—ovate
, ellipsoidellipsoid:
3D shape—elliptic
, tereteterete:
approximately circular in cross section; width and thickness approximately equal
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, 3.5–10 mm long. Seed with distinct lid for germination on the conspicuous rapheraphe:
a ridge or seam on the seed coat, formed by the portion of the funiculus united to the ovule wall in longitudinally curved ovules
, structure like an operculumoperculum:
a dehiscent cap (or lid) of a seed or fruit that opens during germination or dehiscence
but unique to family. Seed with micropylar collarmicropylar collar:
collar shaped tissue at micropyle
. Seed coat black or brown, shinyshiny:
uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles
, coriaceouscoriaceous:
texture—leathery
or hard, punctatepunctate:
surface relief—dotted with pits or with translucent, sunken glands or with colored dots, similar to pitted
. Seeds are embedded in hairs derived from funiculusfuniculus:
(alt. funicle) stalk connecting the ovule (later seed) to the ovary (later fruit) placenta
, sometimes interpreted as arils; hairs remain on the capsulecapsule:
a dry, dehiscent fruit formed by two or more carpels
wall after seeds are shed.

Embryo well developed, linearlinear:
(shape) long, narrow, and uniform in width; (of embryo) embryo is straight and much longer than wide
, extends into depression or cup at one of the seed and surrounded by a thinthin:
having or being of relatively little depth
layer of endospermendosperm:
nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds
and copious, very hard, perispermperisperm:
seed nutritive tissue comparable to the endosperm, but derived from the nucellus (maternal tissue)
.