pyxidium

Definitions

A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.

Equivalents

Examples

“Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence.”

“The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form⟳ of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.”

“The capsule of gold−beater's skin, in which the grubs of the Cione are enclosed, divides itself, at the moment of liberation, into two hemispheres "of a regularity so perfect that they recall⟳ exactly the bursting of the pyxidium when the seed is distributed".”

“A fruit of this kind is sometimes termed a pyxidium; that is, a little chest.”

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