Haemodoraceae

fruit or seed

Fruit dehiscentdehiscent:
(v. dehisce) splitting open at maturity to release contents (of a fruit)
, loculicidalloculicidal:
type of capsular dehiscence, opening longitudinally through the locules (compare septicidal)
, septicidalsepticidal:
type of capsular dehiscence, opening longitudinally by separating between the septa of adjacent carpels
or poricidalporicidal:
type of capsular dehiscence, fruit opening by pores or flaps (often near the top)
capsulecapsule:
a dry, dehiscent fruit formed by two or more carpels
, rarely indehiscentindehiscent:
not opening on its own, as in a fruit
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
(Macropidia), 3–15 mm long, globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to trigonoustrigonous:
3D shape—having three faces that meet at distinct angles; triangular in outline
, 3-angled in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, sometimes beakedbeaked:
a usually firm, terminal appendage, sometimes tapered
or crowned by persistent perianthperianth:
collective term for calyx and corolla of a flower
or tepalstepals:
a member of the perianth, when it cannot be differentiated into a calyx and corolla
, many seeded except if 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
then one seeded. Pericarppericarp:
fruit wall or fruit coat
black, brown, or purple, shinyshiny:
uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles
, smooth or wrinkledwrinkled:
surface relief—shallow, irregular folds and furrows covering the surface; appearing overall though crumpled and then spread out
. Pericarppericarp:
fruit wall or fruit coat
glandularglandular:
surface relief—covered with small, raised secretory glands, regular or irregularly shaped, translucent or opaque, and maybe distinctly colored
and hairy in Wachendorfia. In Macropidia fuliginosa, fruit dehisces into three drupe-like mericarpsmericarps:
a one-seeded section (carpel) of a schizocarp, as in Apiaceae fruits (compare schizocarp)
.

Seed globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to lens-shapedlens-shaped:
2D shape—round and flattened with two curved (convex) surfaces
, flattened in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, 0.5–2 mm long. Seed coat black, brown, red, or white, sometimes transparent, dulldull:
reflecting only a low proportion of incident light, with no apparent sheen
, leatheryleathery:
texture—moderately thick, tough, and very pliable
, smooth or variously sculptured, pubescentpubescent:
surface relief—bearing hairs
in Pyrrorhiza and Wachendorfia. Seeds winged in Dilatris, Haemodorum, Lachnanthes, andSchiekia. Wachendorfia seeds with carunclescaruncles:
a localized outgrowth of the seed coat near the hilum of the seed; it functions as an elaiosome
and water-soluble violet-purple pigment in the inner seed coat.

Embryo in some genera globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to kidney shapedkidney shaped:
2D shape—broadly elongate and with one margin convex and the opposite side concave, each end bluntly rounded
and laterallateral:
(of embryo) embryo lies along the side of the seed, generally towards one end; of, at, or from the side; in grasses, can refer to the sides adjacent to the dorsal and ventral sides
, and other genera rudimentaryrudimentary:
(of embryo) embryo is small and fills less than a quarter of the seed and can be variable in shapes, such as linear, spatulate, or oval
, curvedcurved:
(of embryo) linear embryo is curved into an arch or horseshoe with the ends far apart
, and capping micropylar end of endospermendosperm:
nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds
. Endospermendosperm:
nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds
copious, fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
, hard, or cartilaginouscartilaginous:
texture—firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like cartilage
, and more or less transparent.

In the weedy species, Lachnanthes caroliniana (Lam.) Dandy, capsulescapsules:
a dry, dehiscent fruit formed by two or more carpels
are globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
or oblateoblate:
depressed globose
, 3–5 mm in diam, and 3-lobed. Seeds are reddish-brown, 2.5–3 mm diam., discoiddiscoid:
3D shape—resembling a disc
, minutely scabratescabrate:
surface relief—rough, having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions
with 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
positioned centrally on the concave side.