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Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
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Ovary 1-celled with a suspended ovule, becoming an achene; calyx none; aquatic herbs, with finely dissected whorled leaves.
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Achene (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish closed calyx-tube.
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Ovary with a single cell and ovule, tipped with a long laterally stigmatic style, maturing as an achene.
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Achene obtusely triangular, partly 3-celled, enclosed in the indurated calyx.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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