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Examples of silique
silique
Instead, the seeds are dropped to the ground as the silique dehisces and splits.
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For C. parviflora, the valves of the silique rapidly coil outward catapulting the seeds away from the parent plant.
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If moisture is present the silique closes, protecting the seed and opening again upon dryness to allow for wind dispersal.
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- Narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
- A silique (English singular siliqua, plural siliquae, American English silique/siliques) is a fruit (seed capsule) of 2 fused carpels with the length being more than twice the width. ...
- A long (length more than twice the width) dry fruit (seed capsule) typical to cruciferous plants consisting of 2 fused carpels that separate when ripe
- A dry, dehiscent fruit divided by a septum.
- Long, tubelike seedpod that splits in half.
- Two carpels separated by a seed-bearing septum.
- Dry,dehiscent fruit (pod) characteristic of the Brassicaceae (mustards).
- A capsule like fruit in the mustard family which is more than twice as long as round and splits open when mature. Is typically long and narrow. See also silicle.
- A term applied to the peculiar seedpod structure of plants in the mustard family.
