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Functionally indehiscent fruit | A circumscissile fruit that opens via an operculum (lid) but the seeds are trapped inside because the size of the opening is smaller than the size of the seeds. | |
Indehiscent | Not opening; usually applied to fruits that remain closed at maturity. Opposite of dehiscent. | |
Indehiscent fruit | Referring to a fruit that does not open via an operculum. | |
Secondarily indehiscent fruit | Fruits that are hypothesized to have evolved indehiscent fruits from ancestors with dehiscent fruits. |