subapocarpous

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adjective

Having the carpels partially joined.

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Meanings

adjectivesubapocarpous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving the carpels partially joined.

    Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.

    2015 August 25, “Phylogeny of Acronychia (Rutaceae) and First Insights into Its Historical Biogeography and the Evolution of Fruit Characters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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    Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral.

    1879, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, Celastrales, page 407

Origin

From sub- + apocarpous.

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