Indehiscent fruit

III. Achenial Fruits (all indehiscent).—The Akene is a dry one-chambered, indehiscent fruit, in which the pericarp is firm and may or may not be united with the seed, the style remaining in many cases as an agent of dissemination. Fig. loi (i). The latter may be long and feathery as in Clematis or be hooked. Examples of akenes Fruits of the Composites, Anemone, etc. The Hip of the... 

Achene (akene).—A small, dry, one-celled indehiscent fruit in which the seed coat and pericarp (fruit wall) are not firmly attached. 

Pome.—A fleshy indehiscent fruit, two or more carpelled, with fibrous cartilaginous, or stony endocarp, the chief bulk of which consists of an adherent torus. 

DORSAL. Back relating to the back or outer surface of a part or organ, as the lower side of a leaf the opposite of ventral DRUPE. Fleshy one-seeded indehiscent fruit with seed enclosed in a stony endocarp (a pyrene) stone fruit... 

Muhlhausen, A., Lenser, T., Mummenhoff, K., Theissen, G., 2013. Evidence that an evolutionary transition from dehiscent to indehiscent fruits in Lepidium (Brassicaceae) was caused by a change in the control of valve margin identity genes. Plant J. 73, 824-835. 

Fruit indehiscent but usually splitting to form four nutlets around the often gynobasic style, rarely fleshy carpels one to two seeded. 

Perianth absent or represented by setae or lodicules fruit indehiscent. 

Achene (Akene) A small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit having a thin pericarp. 

Utricle A small one-celled, usually indehiscent, few-seeded fruit with a thin membranous pericarp. 

Samara A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit. 

Fruiting structure Often fleshy, indehiscent, multi-layered fruit containing a single seed Generally dry, dehiscent fruits containing a number of dry seeds with dark testa... 

Achene— A dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, with the outer layer fused to the seed. 

A nut is a type of fruit. Like all fruits, a nut develops from the ovary of a mature, fertilized flower. A nut is thick, dry, hard, and partly or entirely enclosed by a husk. A nut is indehiscent, in that it does not open along a naturally occurring seam, and remains closed even when fully mature. 

The fruit of some species, such as the ash, is a samara, or a dry, one-seeded fruit which is indehiscent (lacks a suture), and has wing-like structures to facilitate dispersal by the wind. The fruit of other species, such as the olive, is a drupe, or a fruit with a fleshy outer layer and a hard inner layer containing one seed. The fruit of other species is a berry, a fruit that is fleshy throughout and has one or more seeds. 

Simple and Compound fruits are either Dry or Fleshy. The first may be divided into Dehiscent, those which split open when ripe and Indehiscent, those which do not. 

Achenial fruits are dry, one-celled, one-seeded and indehiscent at the time of final ripening. 

Fruit an indehiscent achene often (Dandelion, Thistle) crowned by the pappose, calyx rudiment. Seed single, exalbuminous. 

Nut.—A dry, indehiscent, i-celled, i-seeded fruit with a stony or leathery pericarp. 

Schiz ocarp.—A fruit that separates when mature into 2 or more indehiscent mericarps. 

The utricle (Carex)t a dry, indehiscent, l-seeded fruit, with... 

Samara dry indehiscent, winged fruit which does not open, usually one-seeded, sometimes two-seeded. 

Other distinguishing features The root has a yellow color inside. The fruit is indehiscent and beakless. 

BERRY. Pulpy, indehiscent, few- or many-seeded fruit technically the pulpy fruit resulting from a single pistil, containing one or... 

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