Clarification of the Carpel Number in Papaverales, Capparales, and Berberidaceae.

From: The Botanical Review | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: Bruckner, Claudia | Copyright information

I. Abstract

For more than 170 years there has been a controversy about the organization of the siliqua, a fruit typical for the Brassicaceae and, in modified forms, also for members of Capparaceae, Papaveraceae, and Fumariaceae. Because in the Berberidaceae fruit forms resembling a "semi-siliqua" are produced, they are also controversial. A siliqua is typically furnished with two placental regions joined by a septum and dehiscing through detachment of two sterile valves....

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