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| Hemi-legume (hemilegume) | A legume fruit in which the seed or seeds and one valve of the pod are dispersed as a unit. The valve catches the wind and blows away with the seeds. |  |
| Hesperidium | A berrylike fruit with tough or coriaceous outer rind, e.g., the fruit of most species of Citrus (Rutaceae). |  |
| Hypocarp | The swollen pedicel that subtends the fruit of Anacardium (Anacardiaceae). Also called the cashew apple. |  |
| Hypogeous fruits | Immature fruits that penetrate the ground where they develop to maturity, the best examples are the hypogeous fruits of the peanut ( |
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| Hypogynous bristle | Hairlike filaments arising from the base of the achene in some species of Cyperaceae. |  |
| Infructescence | The structure in which fruits are displayed on a plant. |  |
| Interseminal sinuses | The invaginations between the seeds in a legume pod. |  |
| Jaculator | A hooklike structure derived from the funicle of many Acanthaceae that aids in dispersal by ejecting the seed from the fruit. Same as retinaculum. | |
| Legume | A fruit that is derived from a single carpel, dehisces along two sutures, and is usually dry and several-seeded. Although most species of the legume family possess legumes, a number of them do not (e.g., species of |
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| Loculicidal capsule | A dry, dehiscent fruit that opens in the middle of the locule. Compare with septicidal capsule. |  |
| Loment | A type of legume fruit in which each single-seeded segment breaks away from adjacent segments; e.g., in Desmodium (Fabaceae). |  |
| Lomentiform | Like a loment. | |
| Marginicidal dehiscence | See septicidal and septifragal dehiscence. | |
| Mericarp | One of the units of a schizocarp. The mericarps split from the schizocarp but the mericarps are not dehiscent.. |  |
| Mesocarp | The middle layer of the fruit wall. Compare with pericarp. |  |
| Monocarp | A unit of the fruit of apocarpous Annonaceae (e.g., Guatteria spp. and Unonopsis spp.), Menispermaceae, Monimiaceae, Ochnaceae, and Simaroubaceae.. |  |
| Multiple fruit | A fruit formed from the ovaries of more than one flower, e.g., the pineapple fruit which consists of the fusion of the ovaries of the flowers of an inflorescence as the fruits develop. | .thumb.jpg) |
| Non-cylindrical fruit | A fruit that is as long as broad or is shorter than broad. |  |
| Nut | A hard, indehiscent, unilocular, single-seeded fruit arising from a simple or compound ovary. |  |
| Nutlet | A small nut; often used to refer to one of the four parts of the mature fruit of some species of Boraginaceae, Lamiaceae, and Verbenaceae. |  |
| Obturamenta (singular = obturamentum) | See basal stoppers. | |
| Ostiole | The opening into the syconium (fig) of Ficus (Moraceae). |  |
| Pepo | A fleshy, indehiscent, many-seeded fruit with a rigid exocarp typical of many species of Cucurbitaceae. | |
| Pericarp | The wall of the fruit, which is usually made up of three layers: exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. | |
| Pod | The most common fruit of the Fabaceae; see legume. |  |
| Poricidal capsule | A capsule that opens via apical pores, e.g., species of the genus Papaver. |  |
| Pseudocarp | Several small "fruits" surrounded by accompanying parts, such as that of Siparuna (Siparunaceae), in which the separate carpels are surrounded by a fleshy hypanthium, or the syconia of figs in which the the achenes are surrounded by hollow stem ends. |  |
| Pseudosyncarpous | In the Annonaceae, referring to fruits in which the carpels seem to be connate, but in reality are free or almost free (e.g., species of Duguetia in the Annonaceae). |  |
| Pyrene | In the Burseraceae, the part of the fruit surrounding a seed or seeds that is derived from the endocarp and is sometimes surrounded by a pseudaril. Similar to a stone but we restrict stones to only drupes or drupelets with a single seed. |  |
| Pyxidium, pyxidiate | A capsular fruit with circumscissile dehiscence. |  |
| Replum | A thin membrane that runs from one side of the fruit to the other side of the fruit in many Brassicaceae that persists after the fruits have dehisced and the seeds have been dispersed, i.e., it is the partition between the two compartments or locules of the fruits. |  |
| Samara | An indehiscent, winged fruit; e.g., those of |
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| Schizocarp | A dry fruit that splits into several parts (each called a mericarp), each usually with a single seed; e.g., in Apiaceae, most lianas of Malpighiaceae, some Malvaceae, and Serjania spp. (Sapindaceae). | |
| Septicidal capsule | A dry, dehiscent fruit that opens along the septum. | |
| Septifragal capsule | Referring to a type of fruit dehiscence in which the valves break away from the septa, e.g., in species of Paullinia (Sapindaceae). Same as marginicidal dehiscence. | |
| Silicle | A fruit similar to a silique but scarcely, if at all, longer than wide, characteristic of some species of Brassicaceae. Compare with silique. |  |
| Silique | An elongate (usually more than twice as long as wide) capsular fruit with two seed chambers and a persistent replum, characteristic of some species of Brassicaceae. Compare with silicle. |  |
| Sticktight | A plant diaspore (e.g., an entire fruit, a fruit surrounded by calyx, a seed, etc.) that attaches by barbs or hoos to and is dispersed by an animal. Sticktights are often associated with weedy habitats and frequently attach to the clothing of humans. See "pega-pega" for Spanish translation. |  |
| Stone | The nut or nutlet in a drupe; i.e., the hardened part of a drupe or a duplet (= endocarp) containing a single seed. In non-scientific language it is called the pit. | |
| Syncarp | A type of multiple fruit resulting from the fusion of numerous ovaries. |