Opercular opening

• Title

  Opercular opening

• Definition

  The opening of a dehiscent-fruited species of Lecythidaceae.

• Notes

  Dehiscent fruits are only found in the New World tropics and even then some of the fruits of predominantly dehiscent genera have become secondarily indehiscent.

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