utricle

This variety is grown in gardens for the ornamental, elongate utricles, which are used for beads.

Utricles ovoid, compressed, membranous, indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent (bursting), falling off with perianth.

Styles short; stigmas capitate. Utricles irregularly circumscissile (bursting).

Pseudostaminodes present, triangular; utricles irregularly bursting, seeds tuberculate.

stigma capitate. Utricles globose or ovoid, indehiscent, falling off with perianth.

Leaves glabrous; petiole without wings; utricles ellipsoid.

Utricles globose or oblong, compressed, indehiscent.

Utricles green, longer than perianth, globose, slightly compressed, ca. 2 mm in diam. , very rugose, indehiscent.

Utricles exceeding perianth, compressed-ovoid, ca. 3 mm, indehiscent, slightly rugose to nearly smooth.

Utricles yellowish brown, shiny, oblong, smooth.

This form with softer utricles is used as a food grain and for medicine. It also provides good forage.

Utricles ovate, dehiscent by lid.

Utricles compressed, ca. 1 mm. Seeds dark purple, reniform.

Utricles ovate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

stigmas 3 or 2, falling off when utricles ripen.

Utricles ovoid, 3-3. 5 mm, enveloped in persistent perianth.

Utricles oblong, ca. 3. 5 mm, hairy at apex.

Cell proliferation of vestibular utricles from guinea pigs after gentamicin damage in vitro

The most reliable diagnostic characters are those of utricles;