fruit operculum
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025298
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: fruit lid
- exact: fruit opercula
- exact: opérculo del fruto (Spanish)
- exact: 果蓋 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A collective organ part structure that is the apical part of a circumsessile capsular fruit that separates from the rest of the capsule during dehiscence. [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- Develops from the apical portion of a gynoecium. Found in Eucalyptus and other Myrtaceae.
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