Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Circumferentially winged seeds and leaf-like cotyledons of Couratari. Drawing by B. Angell.

Title: Seedling of Peltogyne purpurea. Photo by R. Aguilar.

Description: Seedling of Peltogyne purpurea with old cotyledons (white structures), remaining parts of testa present, and one of the two valves of the fruit still attached. The first true leaves (eophylls) have emerged (based on Reinaldo Aguilar 9545 from the Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica).

Term:

Epigeal germination

Definition:

Referring to a type of seed germination in which the cotyledons are held at or above the ground. Compare with hypogeal.