Unless indicated otherwise, the following attributes are implicit throughout the database, except where the characters concerned are inapplicable.
Fruit: A legume; unilocular; with deciduous androecial sheath; with deciduous corolla; with deciduous calyx; without orifice formed by curving of fruit or fruit segments; not plicate; symmetrical; not inflated; without beak; with the apex and base uniform in texture; margin not constricted; margin without sulcus; margin plain; wing(s) absent; splitting along suture(s). Replum invisible. Epicarp monochrome; with surface texture uniform; with hairs erect; eglandular; without spines; not smooth; not veined; not tuberculate; without cracks; without embedded tissue, much thicker than epicarp, running from base to apex. Mesocarp surface not veined; without balsamic vesicles; without reniform canals. Endocarp present; visible; opaque; without adhering pieces of testa; not exfoliating; remaining fused to mesocarp and epicarp; entire. Funiculus of 1 length only. Aril entire.
Seed: Not overgrown; not angular; symmetrical; with surface smooth; without visible radicle and cotyledon lobes; without external groove between radicle and cotyledon lobes; without hilar sinus; without umbo on seed faces; without medial ridge on each face. Cuticle not exfoliating; not inflated; not wrinkled. Testa present; without pieces of adhering epicarp; not adhering to endocarp; free from endocarp; not modified by a bloom; colored; glabrous. Pleurogram absent. Pseudopleurogram absent. Fracture lines absent. Rim absent. Wing(s) absent. Raphe not visible. Hilum present; larger than punctiform; not within corona, halo, or rim. Lens not in groove of raphe; dissimilar color from testa; not within corona, halo, or rim. Endosperm not pluglike and not resembling tip of radicle. Cotyledons smooth; both outer faces convex; both the same thickness; both more or less of equal length; not folded; margin entire 180 degrees from base of radicle; similar at apex; with the interface division terminating at base of radicle; without margins recessed; inner face flat; glabrous on inner face. Embryonic axis without a joint evident between the radicle and the cotyledons. Radicle differentiated from cotyledon; centered between cotyledons. Plumule glabrous.
Authors: J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., C.R. Gunn, A.L. Weitzman, M.J. Dallwitz, K.R. Thiele
Content last updated April 2003
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