arilloid
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0019022
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- narrow: arillode
- exact: arilli
- exact: arillus
- exact: arilodio (Spanish)
- exact: 種皮附属物, アリロイド (Japanese)
- Definition
- A cardinal part of multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025498) that is a fleshy outgrowth of a seed (PO:0009010). [source: ISBN:9780881928501]
- Comment
- Often conspicuous and found on seeds with a hard testa that are dispersed by animals. There is some variation in how different sources define the subtypes of arilloids.
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