Category: M

The nutlets in some Boraginaceae [rare term].  

Pertaining to mericarps.  

Seed-containing parts of a fruit that do not form a single unit and that each derive from a carpel, these parts usually dehisce independently from each other when ripe. One carpel of an umbilliferous fruit. Part of a fruit that contains seeds and is formed of a carpel, dehiscing independently of others in the same…

(In an orchid flower) a chin-like extension at the base of the flower, composed of the variably united column-foot, lip and lateral sepals.  

Like a membrane: flexible and thin, usually also translucent. Resembling a membrane or thin skin. Thin and papery-like, often transparent. Pertaining to or characterized by the development or presence of a membrane.  

Thin and semi-transparent. Membrane-like.  

Growth form from which the megasporangia of Azolla are produced.  

The larger-sized spores (as opposed to microspores) in heterosporous plants, the spores that produces female gametes. A large spore that germinates to form a female gametophyte.  

The sporangium in which megaspores develop. The structure containing megaspores.