Cyperaceae

Fruit indehiscentindehiscent:
not opening on its own, as in a fruit
, usually acheneachene:
a dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, with seed attached to pericarp at a single point
(rarely, berryberry:
an indehiscent, fleshy fruit with one or a few to many seeds. The flesh may be homogenous throughout. Or, if the outer part is hard, firm, or leathery, referred to as an hesperidium. Septa are present in some, and the seeds may be arillate or with a fleshy testa.
, utricleutricle:
a small, indehiscent, dry fruit with a thin wall (bladderlike) that is loose and free from the seed
, or indehiscentindehiscent:
not opening on its own, as in a fruit
one-stoned drupedrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
), 0.3–6 mm long, globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to trigonoustrigonous:
3D shape—having three faces that meet at distinct angles; triangular in outline
, tereteterete:
approximately circular in cross section; width and thickness approximately equal
, angledangular:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles
, or compressedcompressed:
flattened; in grasses, used to denote compression (not necessarily flattened) either laterally or dorsiventrally
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, with persistent stylar remnantsstyle base:
remnant of a style
, often beakedbeak:
a usually firm, terminal appendage, sometimes tapered
, one seeded, usually enclosed in persistent perianthperianth:
collective term for calyx and corolla of a flower
or membranousmembranous:
texture—extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough
sac (perigynium). Fruit may be winged. Pericarppericarp:
fruit wall or fruit coat
is black, brown, gray, green, white, yellow, or orange, shinyshiny:
uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles
or dulldull:
reflecting only a low proportion of incident light, with no apparent sheen
, crustaceouscrustaceous:
texture—thin, dry, indurate, and brittle
, indurateindurate:
texture—hardened or stony; yielding under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption
, or membranousmembranous:
texture—extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough
, glabrousglabrous:
without hairs
or pubescentpubescent:
surface relief—bearing hairs
, smooth or variously ornamented.

Seed ovoid, fusiformfusiform:
spindle-shaped; broadest at the middle and tapering at both ends
, or ellipsoidellipsoid:
3D shape—elliptic
, tereteterete:
approximately circular in cross section; width and thickness approximately equal
or compressedcompressed:
flattened; in grasses, used to denote compression (not necessarily flattened) either laterally or dorsiventrally
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, 0.3–6 mm long, 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
and chalazachalaza:
the region at the base of the ovule where the integuments are inserted
usually conspicuous, punctatepunctate:
surface relief—dotted with pits or with translucent, sunken glands or with colored dots, similar to pitted
hilumhilum:
on seeds, the scar indicating where the funiculus was attached; on grass caryopses, the scar visible on the outer caryopsis surface revealing where the seed is attached on the inner fruit wall surface; or in Asteraceae cypselae, the scar visible on the pericarp revealing where the fruit was attached to the receptacle
. Seed coat brown, thinthin:
having or being of relatively little depth
, smooth. Seed free of fruit wall.

Embryo small but well developed, capitatecapitate:
head-shaped; abruptly enlarged on one end to a relatively short, terminal portion
or broad, curvedcurved:
(of embryo) linear embryo is curved into an arch or horseshoe with the ends far apart
, transversetransverse:
lying, situated, or placed across
to seed length and basalbasal:
at or pertaining to the point of attachment; (of embryo) embryo occupies one end of the seed
, partially filling seed coat. Endospermendosperm:
nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds
copious, smooth, fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
, and opaqueopaque:
not transmitting light
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