mericarps

The distinctive dolphin-shaped mericarps are sometimes used in necklaces.

mericarps with an aperture adaxially at middle, ribs with a scar at middle.

Fruit a large, oblate schizocarp, depressed at apex, breaking up into laterally compressed woody mericarps.

Cremocarp A dry fruit splitting into two one-seeded portions. The portions are termed mericarps.

Calyx teeth minute; styles short; both mericarps developing in fruit.

Stamens 4; inflorescence axillary; mericarps abaxially acute.

mericarps 5-18, indehiscent, reddish brown, horseshoe-shaped with a prominent ventral notch, sometimes 2- or 3-cuspidate.

Fruit dry, without evident mesocarp, divided at maturity into 4 1-seeded mericarps; annual herbs.

Stems subglabrous or stellate puberulent, rooting at nodes; mericarps with 2 short awns.

Corolla 6-8 cm wide; mericarps with lateral edges rounded, walls separating readily from seed.

mericarps 15-20, apex acute, slightly awned, long stellate scabrous.

mericarps 8-15, deciduous, loculicidal, walls membranous, persistent receptacle ca. 2 mm.

mericarps trigonous-ovate, ca. 1 mm.

Fruit a schizocarp, separating into (2-)4 mericarps.

Mature mericarps inflated, apex rounded, not beaked, wall thin, membranous; petals 0. 6-1 cm.

Fruits separating into 3 1-seeded mericarps, fleshy or dry.

Carpels apparently free, fruit deeply (3-)5-lobed mericarps; seeds 1 per locule.

mericarps 10-12, abaxially smooth, ca. 1 mm thick, angles rounded and rugose, sides reticulate.

Leaf blade 2-5 cm; mericarps velutinous.

Fruit nutletlike dry drupes, without evident mesocarp at maturity, endocarp bony, dividing into 4 1-seeded or 2 2-seeded mericarps.

Capsule nearly globose, ca. 3 cm in diam. , hirsute; mericarps 5-6.

mericarps 8 or 9, ca. 4 mm, wrinkled, minutely hairy, apex not awned.

mericarps 10, with vertical grooves, apex 2-awned, awn 3-4 mm, exceeding calyx, retrorsely barbed.

Fruit ovoid-oblong, slightly flattened laterally, mericarps subrounded in cross section, commissure constricted, glabrous, shiny;

Fruit ovoid or ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed laterally, commissure constricted, mericarps pentagonal in cross section, glabrous;

Fruit oblong to ovoid-oblong or ellipsoid, slightly laterally compressed, mericarps subpentagonal (rarely rounded) in cross section;