subapocarpous

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ apocarpous

Adjective

subapocarpous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Having the carpels partially joined.
    • 1879, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, ‎Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, Celastrales, page 407:
      Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral.
    • 2015 August 25, “Phylogeny of Acronychia (Rutaceae) and First Insights into Its Historical Biogeography and the Evolution of Fruit Characters”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0136296:
      Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.
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