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An indehiscent simple fruit with one to many seeds immersed in a fleshy pulp, supported by an endocarp less than 2 mm thick, the pericarp not differentiated internally by a hardened endocarp or airspace (Spjut, 1994). The most generalized type of fleshy fruit, derived from a single pistil, fleshy throughout, and containing usually several or…

Food bodies for ants located at the leaflet apices of some species of Acacia.  

3-dimensional shape of a hollow cup-like structure with either parallel sides or gently widening sides, and widening at the mouth. Having a raised rounded center with margin becoming straight or upturned slightly, resembling a church bell, campanulate.  

A tuft of long hairs.  

With a beak, with a long slender projection; also rostrate. Surmounted by a long and narrow tip.  

A slender projection, like the beak of a bird (e.g. persistent style base on fruit); also rostellum; In Compositae, the elongated apex of an achene, beneath the pappus, forming an often slender neck; also rostrum. A terminal projection, for example, on a fruit, sometimes formed by a style that is persistent in fruit. Effectively the…

(Of hairs) with regular narrowing and widening, making it look like a string of beads. With regular narrowing and widening, making it look like a string of beads. Referring to disjointed colonies along the inoculation line in a streak or stab culture.